Robbing God by G. B. THOMPSON

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 9, 1909

Robbing God

By G. B. THOMPSON

G. B. THOMPSON

The question is asked, “Will a man rob God?” Mal. 3:8. Hardly, one would think. Well might one shudder at the thought of a sin of such awful turpitude.

But the inspired seer continues, “Yet ye have robbed me.” Then some are guilty at the bar of God of this great sin. In the presence of such an indictment by the Holy Spirit each will do well to inquire, like the disciples of old, “Lord, is it I?”

But, you say, I do not rob God, for I pay him an honest tithe. Very well, but we may do all this and still rob God. Withholding our tithe is not the only way by which we can rob the Lord. The Great Benefactor says some have robbed him in tithes and offerings. We may pay a faithful tithe, and yet withhold offerings and in this way be guilty of the sin charged.

Are any doing this, you say? Well, in view of the shortness of time, and the vast import of the message with which we are entrusted, were all as liberal as they should be, we would certainly be able to raise a sum equal to ten cents a week a member. Do you not think so?

Reader, please look over your stuff, look over your farm, your store, your business, your bank account, and see if you have put all in the cause you should, or have withheld, and thus robbed the Lord. Look at this now, as you will when face to face with the record in the judgment.

Takoma Park, D. C.