Offering First Fruits
"Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, and you possess it and live in it, that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you bring in from your land that the Lord your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name. You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, 'I declare this day to the Lord my God that I have entered the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.'Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God. You shall answer and say before the Lord your God, 'My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation. And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us. Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and wonders; and He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. Now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground which You, O Lord have given me.' And you shall set it down before the Lord your God, and worship before the Lord your God;and you and the Levite and the alien who is among you shall rejoice in all the good which the Lord your God has given you and your household.
My Current Thoughts
This passage relates to my current thoughts on what God is calling me to do with my business idea. I believe that God is asking me to give it to Him as a type of First Fruits. How that will look, I don't know for sure yet. The First Fruits is a beautiful type of offering to God in my opinion. It acknowledges that all God's blessing is from God and gives a portion of what God has given back to God. It was a commanded form of offering from Deuteronomy that the Israelites were supposed to do.
Growing up, my parents would give first fruits of the fruit that came from our fruit trees. They would take the fruit to our Pastor as a gift. The first years crops was sacred to God. This is how I feel about the idea that God has given to me. I believe that it is sacred to God, and I am going to give it back to God. Whether that means that I lay it all before God, or give the first seven years to God, I have not decided yet, but that is currently my thoughts on the matter.
I totally believe that God is able to bless my life even if I give back to Him the best idea that He ever has given me. God is a big God who can bless me beyond all that I ask or think. Today, I am trusting that after I give to Him, that He will bless me. Whether that is riches or something else remains to be seen.
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