Priorities

Haggai 1:4 Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while my house remains a ruin?

God was asking the Israelites why they had nice houses yet the House of God was not rebuilt.  They had put their priorities backwards. I think we often do the same. The Bible is full of instruction on what we should do with out love, our time and our money, yet we don't obey. We put our own desires first, but when we do this, we cut ourselves off from untold blessings.

God tells us in Haggai 2:8 "The silver is mine and the gold is mine", declares the Lord Allmightly.
so if it is His anyway, why are we so reluctant to give Him back our tithe and offering or when we do, it is out of obligation rather than love?

Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

So why don't we give God more of our thoughts, our time and our money?