As Christians, the bible is clear throughout its pages that we’re called to give generously. In the book of Exodus 35:4-19, we see the Israelites all generously giving the materials and time to build the tabernacle. If any of those people decided to withhold the materials they owned or the skills they had, the tabernacle wouldn’t have come together.

Move forward some in the Bible, and in Malachi 3:10-12, it 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.”

In the New Testament God Himself gave us His only Son because He loves us so much, and that Son died on a cross for us. This sets a model that generosity in God’s people should be sacrificial.