Mammon and tithing

I remember the manna in the wilderness

It fell every morning and turned into worms if one kept it one day

and tried to save it

yet on the sixth day when it fell it miraculously lasted two days for the sabbath

and didn't get wormy

so we are taught that God is the one who takes care of us

same thing with the tithe on the land

every 7 years the rest

and people shouldn't do anything to the land

the land would give of itself because it was a blessed land

on that 7th year

wwe have to enter into his rest

the tithe is our realization that we have entered into our rest

we want to believe we've earned it all

that unless we work, unless we save\

unless we're good stewards

then some bad thng will happen

so we say religious things like

if you don't tithe

God won't bless you

and that isn't the way it works

God is always blessing

and the ithe is not about paying off God protection money

it's about resting in his love and showing that you are not being bullied by mammon and the fear of mammon

that you trust that God takes care of the birds of the air and the lilies of the field

when the persecution happens

we will see how well God takes care of us even without money and tithing to pay him off

but it's like we can't quite grasp that this is honoring his love

we see it as payment

and even churches who should know God's love

are afraid to trust God

it's like the pastor saying

but i need to get the people to tithe

or I won't be able to eat or to pay for the church or whatever

so they  are depending on the money and not on the God who gives the money

very hard to depend on God but i totally believe tht one should give something as a battle against the human mind of keeping money

as a little battle against mammon and human self-trust