To Tithe Or Not To Tithe?

The height of my mischance today was when, as I was paying the bike man who had transported me to the bank, another bike hit me from behind. The impact was not so injurious but it was serious enough to draw effusive apologies from the bike rider, his passenger and other bystanders.

I did not even flinch, but merely walked on briskly as though people running their bikes into others was a normal part of life. Perhaps this unoffended attitude of mine was what made the offender and his passenger more empathetic in their apology, but little did they know that they were the least of my problems.

Earlier today, in the morning, a fellow corps member had attempted to, and successfully used me to shine her ego and assert her position as the new CDS president by picking covertly, and then directly on me during the CDS meeting. It had taken a great deal of self-control to conceal my pique.

Later at midday, one of my major customers had refused to accept fresh supply of my chinchin simply because I didn't have up to the usual quantity I supply him. He wouldn't even accept my offer to supply half the usual quantity first and complete it the next day. I was sad. If only he knew how badly I needed the money to get new materials for my next chinchin production.

And speaking of money, it was my biggest headache. Access Bank had been playing hide and seek with my money since two weeks and my other debtors were out of reach. I was suddenly broke and almost stranded. It didn't look good for my business.

I had therefore alighted from the bike this afternoon with full concentration on the bank that wanted to finish my career, I had gone to lodge the same complaint, a third time. How could I then allow myself to get distracted by the little commotion following my accident, especially as I wasn't even badly affected?

In the same vein, how can you, a heaven-bound child of God allow yourself to get carried away with the debate on tithing as against charity, in the face of more weighty issues like holiness and rapture?

How do you let yourself get distracted making attacks on non-tithe payers your business of the day? Really, how do you destroy the reward of your obedience with self-righteousness?

And you, non-tithe payer, who has been redeemed from the curse of the law and received the grace of God which is not earned by works, how do you fall out of your grace by ridiculing the conviction of other believers?

No cleric is any more of God's son than you are. Allow the Holy Spirit to lead you.

Strengthen your faith, not your baseless online bickering.

Shalom✌🏽