"FEAR THE LORD YOUR GOD ALWAYS!"

Deuteronomy 14:22-26                                      (ESV)

"22 "YOU SHALL TITHE ALL THE YIELD of your seed that comes from the field year by year.

23 And before the LORD your GOD, in the place that HE will choose, to make HIS NAME dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to "FEAR THE LORD YOUR GOD ALWAYS".

24 And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the LORD your GOD blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your GOD chooses, to set HIS name there,

25 then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the LORD your GOD chooses

26 and spend the money for whatever you desire-oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the LORD your GOD and rejoice, you and your household."

The scripture above is rather lenient about how and what we should TITHE to the LORD.  There are a few things, however, that the LORD is rather strict about!  The main thing is that YOU SHALL TITHE!  But TITHING doesn't mean that we are yielding to HIS leadership in our lives.  

According to scripture, we are able to "eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock", but one thing we should never be guilty of is to NOT "FEAR THE LORD YOUR GOD ALWAYS"!  We can give way more than ten percent to GOD, but unless we "FEAR THE LORD YOUR GOD ALWAYS" 

This world has become so fast-paced that we THINK we don't have time for GOD, or the things of GOD!  Spending an hour each day in HIS Word used to seem so noble to me, that is until I realized that TEN PERCENT of 24-hours is 2.4 hours and then I felt so inadequate!  Does GOD not give me the very breath that I breathe?  Being brought so close to death a few times has opened my eyes to SEE things that others simply can't SEE from their point of view.   

You can only respond to situations based on the position you SEE yourself as being in.  Most of us don't take the time to observe where we are because we are operating at the pace of this world.  We can't "FEAR THE LORD YOUR GOD ALWAYS" because we are trying to be successful in a temporary world, one that will fade away.   FATHER IN HEAVEN, cause me to keep my eyes on Heavenly things (Colossians 3:2) and to "FEAR THE LORD YOUR GOD ALWAYS"!!!