Can Man rob God?:
shared by Brod Jun Mayol


Mang Undo was sitting in his little bamboo house [in Cebu], reading the Bible, while his wife Bunmah was preparing a meal. It was not much of a meal because they had hardly any food left. Being poor she tried to divide the little rice that was left over into seven portions, so that they would have at least some food for the rest of the week.

All of a sudden Mang Undo called his wife: " we have stolen from God," and read to her from Malachi 3.

"What do you think God means that He wants ten percent of what we have? Everything we have comes from Him anyway, so why does he want it back?

"Of course not," his wife said. We don't even have enough rice for ourselves to eat. If we give God some of it we will starve ourselves." 

"Maybe we have so little because we give so little," Undo replied. When he came to my house telling me this story, I looked at him. A poor man, should I tell him that we don't live under the law of the Old testament, anymore but under the grace of the New Covenant? I am glad I did not tell him that. 

Undo would have replied that the grace of God is worth more than ten percent!

That evening Mang Undo sold ten percent of his rice, two chickens and one duck (out of twenty chickens and nine ducks--his total belongings) and put the money in the offering the next Sunday. Not because he had to but because he wanted to.

No wander he was such a happy spiritual man.
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"Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. In tithes
and offerings. Bring the whole tithe into the
storehouse that there may be food in my house.
Test me in this...and see if I will not open
the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much
blessing that you will not have room enough
for it. (Malachi 3:8-10)