“PUT ME TO THE TEST!”

 Malachi 3:6-12                           (ESV)

Robbing GOD

“[6] “For I THE LORD DO NOT CHANGE; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. [7] From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from MY statutes and have not kept them. RETURN TO ME, AND I WILL RETURN TO YOU, says the LORD of HOSTS. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ [8] Will man rob GOD? YET YOU ARE ROBBING ME. But you say, ‘How have we robbed YOU?’ In your tithes and contributions. [9] You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing ME, the whole nation of you. [10] Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in MY house. And thereby “PUT ME TO THE TEST”, says the LORD of HOSTS, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. [11] I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of HOSTS. [12] Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of HOSTS.”

Since GOD is ALL KNOWING, HE “KNEW” that some of us were going to be “withholding” our tithes and offerings in an attempt to “pay our bills” or accumulate more wealth!  In the text above we are being told “PUT ME TO THE TEST”, in other words, LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT I CAN DO when you remove your interference and you ABSOLUTELY TRUST IN GOD above!

We tend to want to “figure” out things on our own, but GOD placed me in a seventeen day coma in 2007 so I COULDN’T “help” HIM!

When our EYES are OPENED and we understand that ALMIGHTY GOD has EVERYTHING under HIS CONTROL, then we are able to SEE the mighty and wondrous WORKS that ONLY HE CAN perform!  Our “help” isn’t required!  We just need to “PUT ME TO THE TEST” and watch HIM work!!!