We've been talking about money again recently - oohlala, the taboo subject - and about giving and generosity. It's interesting how people always ask "How much should we give?" In a weird way, it reminds me a lot of the question of "How far can we go?" couples tend to ask. However, a brilliant response I once heard to this was to point out that this was the wrong question entirely -the right one would be to ask: "How far can we stay sexually pure? How far can we stay away from temptation?"
In a similar sense, maybe we shouldn't be asking "How much should we give?" expecting an answer of a certain amount of money that we can give to ease our consciences about not giving anything and to relieve our selfishness so that we don't give too much... Maybe the right question is to ask "How much should we keep? Why not give it all away?"
That might seem a little bit crazy, but it should be a challenge to you to consider your dependency on money - do we really need it? Why are we so attached to it?
hmmm...
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i think this is gonna be a touchy subject, especially now that the interest rates might go up and petrol is just getting out of control.
allot of wisdom is needed hey. especially in terms of drawing up a budget and stuff. i dont think ppl realise that you can budget to give your money away... and i assume we talking mostly about tithing.
one good principal that i heard is that you should be tithing almost as much as you are saving. some of us have saving policies, but then we give the leftovers away. maybe it should be the other way around. Jesus spoke strongly against storing up earthly treasures. that doesnt mean we cant save, but it does mean that we must be wise about how we do it.
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