Tithe and Mother's Day

I am excited to start this post right now. So, it was about today during the Sunday service. Yesterday noon before meeting’s lunch break, I looked at my calendar, I suddenly realised that I haven’t gave my pledge to our church this month, as I was out of town last weekend. Then I checked my purse, I was thinking: “Hmm... okay, still enough for another week after giving pledge…”

The calendar in this book... teehee!

Then during lunch break, one of my friends handed over a RM50 note to me, then I was like: “Owh ya! He owed me RM50 during our last karaoke outing. I was happy that I actually have extra money to give pledge. But it is actually not something extra, if you do the aftermath. Like people owed you money and you get it back again, it’s not an extra earning anyhow. But still I am happy, at least I don’t have to berjimat that much as I thought! Haha!

This morning during Sunday service, I took out the envelope in front of me to fill in for pledging purpose, then I saw this word “TITHE” on the top of the list. Then Michelle’s words during our last dinner struck me. We met for dinner before one of the prayer meetings to have the partnership commitment form signed, as I was accepted as a partner of our church.

One of the commitments is to give tithe, 10% of our income. I knew about tithe before this, but never thought of giving it as it never cross my mind. I am still a student and my allowance is given by my mum, and 10% of it, hmmm, I can do quite lot of things with it, of course, my personal stuffs, SO I will just give my tithe after I start to work la, that was what I thought. Then Michelle shared her experience with me, telling me that as a student, we still can give tithe, and she did so too during her college day, it is just about how willing are we to do so, and it’s up to ourselves. Allowances are still incomes, and if I think that RM50 is a lot, then when I start to work, 10% of my salary will be more than hundred, that is MORE, provided that if I found a job with salary more than thousand ringgit la, and praise the Lord that I know that He will find me a suitable job for me, as for He always have our life planned for us!

So I decided to give my tithe at the moment. I filled up the column for tithe and put in the money for tithe and pledge! Then I started to plan my weekly expenses, cutting unnecessary expenses, blablabla, until Pastor Kenneth started to preach. After service ended, I suddenly thought of one of Jesus’ word: “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing?” from Matthew 6:25. (Thanks to Catherine and Hannah in helping to find the exact location of this verse. =P) So I shook off the worries from my head.

Then there came my mum in her car to fetch me to Pyramid to pick up my charger from my friend. And we chit-chatted about my brother. As we chatted, she said she’s going to give me an extra RM50 for this week in case I ran out of money when I go out for meeting or what else. I was quite surprised, she is quite strict in my allowance, she gives the amount that we agreed on usually, and only extra when I need to buy necessary things which will cost a lot or I’m going on trip. This is the first time she actually offered to give me extra money for kinda no reason. I was thanking and praising the Lord in my heart.

And that is not the end of the story. After having lunch together and finishing off some of her things, she sent me back to hostel. And before I get off the car, she was talking on the phone, I thought she may be forgot to give me the extra RM50, so I wanted to go down without reminding her, because the money I still have is enough for me to survive for another week. When I was about to open the door, she stopped me while talking on phone, and actually handed over RM100 to me! I looked at her like I’m looking at an alien. She just nodded her head and hinted me to go down because she has to leave.

Praise the Lord for knowing our needs and providing us always! Amen!

And as I’m going to end this entry, I just realise that I haven’t told her that I love her. I’m not a person good in speaking, so I chose to let words to take over the role of tongue. So I will message her later. Haha!

Happy Mother’s day to every mum in the whole world! Sometimes us as kids may be hurting your hearts, but please forgive us for our ignorant as we are still learning the proper way to respect and honour you. We will never come to this beautiful world and be who we are now without you! May God bless every mother and mother-to-be! Amen.