Giving Our Firstfruits To The Lord

-January 5, 2023-

Good morning, happy Thursday,

“Honor the Lord with your possessions, and with the firstfruits of all your increase; So your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.”

(Proverbs 3:9).

It has always been God’s will that His people give Him the firstfruits. One of Israel’s feasts was allied the Feast of the Firstfruits. They were to give Him the very best that they had. When we as believers give, we also should give of the very best we have. The Lord is worthy of all that we have. After all, everything we have is from Him. When a farmer harvests his crops he usually takes of the first fruits for he and his family to enjoy. But before he does that he should take that and give it to the Lord.

We should never give the Lord the second best or worse yet, the last fruits or the leftovers. Instead we should honor the Lord with our possessions and the firstfruits of all we have. By doing this God will bless us with plenty and our vats will overflow with new wine. No one can out give the Lord. Malachi 3:10 says, “‘Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.’”

Giving to the Lord involves our time, our talents, and our treasures. The Lord wants us to give Him our whole hearts in dedication, devotion, and delight. The hymn writer William W. How wrote, “We give Thee but Thine own, whate’er the gift may be: all that we have is Thine alone, a trust, O Lord from Thee. May we Thy bounties thus, as stewards true receive, and gladly, as Thou blessest us, to Thee our firstfruits give. “

May we put the Lord first in everything this year, honor Him, please Him, and give Him the very best that we have. Have a blessed day. Stay safe and healthy.

Giving our firstfruits to the Lord Jesus,

Dean