Amos 3:8-10

About 3 weeks ago, I started attending church. With each visit, God touched my soul, and during the 2nd service, He laid it on my heart to tithe to the church I'd been attending.

Over the past 7 years, I had attended church every once in awhile, and tithed every once in awhile during those attendence once in awhiles (does that make sense?) Even though I was far from what you'd call faithful, each time, God blessed my meager effort.

So when He asked me to be faithful and tithe now, I did. The first time was easy. And, I say "easy" very lightly. While the money could definitley be used for bills and what-not, it was in my budget, and do-able. I tithed the 10% as per The Instructions, but when He asked me to go above that, I politely declined, basically telling Him I trusted Him, but not that much.
After I got home from that Sunday's service, I felt convicted. He couldn't bless me if I didn't fully trust Him.
So the next week (this past Sunday) I did as He asked, wondering how He was going to bless this trust. I had all of His options outlined in my head, and absolutely none of them seemed feasible long-term (long-term is applicable here, because I intend to keep tithing)

Sooooo, today....In addition to finding out that I got the position I had applied for within my company a few weeks ago, He also blessed me in another way that I am not at liberty to share, but it is definitly outside the box I had placed all of His options in. The funny thing is, I knew it would be outside this box, but I was still surprised when He did it.

This week has been a rollercoster, full of ups and downs, and proof of His faithfulness is exactly what I needed.