How interesting it was to hear about Malachi in a current Sentinel Watch program with Tony Lobl and Jasmine Birtles: "Dispelling the fear of money".
Jasmine shares that wonderful promise from Malachi 3:10-11--
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruit of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.
Jasmine explains that the passage not only assures us that God is the fountain of all good for each of us, but equally, that WE ARE the blessing: God pours US out to be a blessing for the world.
We might look at ourselves and those around us, those who've gone before us, and those we may never even meet, in a different, perhaps less critical, light when we acknowledge this declaration of Malachi's. What a new view of everyone's worth emerges.
Julie Swannell
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