On Eating Our Gifts

What we give to God has a way of coming back to us. A man who cut corners on a house meant as a retirement gift ended up living in the very mess he built a living picture of a biblical truth: we eat our own offerings. Scripture required that gifts to God be the best, because much of what was offered returned to the giver. When people give God only leftovers time, money, care, or obedience they eventually live with the results. God is not mocked: what we sow, we reap. The question is sobering are we offering God our best, or preparing a house we ourselves will have to live in?