So I have been reading a very good friend of mines blog and it has actually been very revealing. He has been working through Malachi and challenge me immensely, not as much through what he has been learning (don\’t get me wrong I have learned a ton and searched out for myself concepts and meanings) but through how, the work, and the desire to seek you and become a better follower of you. I just came to the realization that his blog is real, it\’s authentic, it\’s truth from the inner most parts and there is something different about reading that than a book by some random author or even a popular author. There is connection there. There is time invested. And I know that it\’s for the right purpose, and I know that it\’s not for show but for the glory of one. The one. That\’s what makes it different, especially for me who hates reading, is dyslectic, and can not write well at all. I love it. Reading it makes me want to follow God. Isn\’t that the purpose of our lives!? To make people want to follow the one true God, forsake all others, drop everything, pick up that heavy, old, dirty, crooked cross and follow him! I want that! I want someone to say that about me! I want God to say that about me. \”your life makes people want to follow you!\”
It\’s cool, I started reading Malachi because this brother of mine has been and I decided to listen to it while I cleaned the bathrooms. So I am listen to it and it has music in the background, you can only imagine what kind of music is playing during the beginning of the book. God is pissed, he is pretty much telling Israel how much he hates them and how they totally suck balls. The whole time its like \”Lord of the Rings\” music when something bad is about to go down. You can just feel by the music alone that nothing good is happened. He is pissed at everyone, it sounds like if he didnt make the promise with Noah he would flood these people again.
Then in verse 5 he starts talking about Levi and the covenant that He made with him and how perfect Levi is and how much God loves him. Then comes the background music, the music I want when Jesus is giving an account of me and how I served him. It\’s like the music in the \”Never Ending Story\” and at the end where the boy is riding on the back of Valcor, that dragon dog thing.
The point is that it\’s music of amazingness, approval, victory, perfect, triumph, and a job well done. You can think of any movie and it usually ends with the hero on the back of some beast and the music is victorious. I want to be worth of that music, I want God to flip to that song upon my entrance in to his presents. That, \”job well done my good and faithful servant,\” music.
So to start earning that music I must give over the one most important and selfish area in my life. My money. Well now, his money. It must be his, has to be his. I started going to church again and we have found a place where we are looking to get involved and the first and foremost way I can do that is through what God had given me.
I don\’t remember the last time that I tithed. It has to be over a year. Maybe 6 months, nevertheless if I can\’t remember then there is a serious problem. So God please take what is yours and multiply it for your kingdom and supply my needs.
Nos & Rehtaf, Dnabsuh 