Symphonic & giving

 A good question to ask is this: why should we give money to God?  Doesn't God already own everything? It is true that giving to God is like a child using money her father gave her to buy him a present.  But the act of giving has its own value, and it pleases the father and changes the child.  We are part of a world which says very loudly and insistently "no one is looking out for you," and "you'd better take care of yourself."  Because of these constant messages, money has developed its own pull; its own gravitational field holding us in its grasp.  We place our hope in money to give us more time, security, status, and health, yet no bank account was ever large enough to stop a drunk driver, prevent cancer or mend a fractured marriage. We, the church Symphonic, give our tithes and offerings  to God as a declaration that we belong to a different economy; the economy of God's kingdom, not the world's.  Each time we give it reminds us that money will not fulfill its promises to us, but God never fails.  Each time we give it breaks our hearts free from the gravity of the world's economy and allows us to come closer to the Kingdom economy.