Tax season this year just passed and i thought of writing about this topic. A lot of us were thinking of how much I'm going to pay for last year or how much refund I am going to get for 2022. As for me i was a little anxious that i am going to pay something because i withdrew a tax deferred account.
I had my Tax preparer's appointment, she was looking into my tax documents. She asked me, if I had any donations in 2022. I said "I did, but I do not want to include it, for personal reasons." She did not say anything.
I do not remember what year was that, that I started thinking that i should not file my church tithes or donations. I realized that when I filed my tithes and donations for taxes, I felt that I am taking back what i gave to the Lord. Filing the amount of my tithes and donations will help me either get a refund or lessen my taxes. That goes also to some household stuffs that i donated to a thrift shop and I filed it for my Income tax in the past.
Since walking in this spiritual journey I have learned a lot and it includes about tithing and giving donations. Tithing is expected to support the church or ministries. It is written in Romans(KJV) 13:6 "For this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing." As Christians we should give tithes every month and give to charities. But what I am trying to say that if we give tithes and donations we should not file it in our income taxes. I admit I used to do it and I repented to the Lord.
Giving tithes and donations is my way of thanking the Lord for blessing me.It is written in Malachi (KJV) 3:8-10 " Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say , Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings."
" Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation." Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,that there maybe meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."
So i hope you think about it also and felt it in your heart what i felt about it.
