Giving works best when the Lord's portion is removed first and believers learn to live within the remainder.
God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.
People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.
Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.
A life that is lived without regard to God cannot be called living.
A worshiper's gift makes a statement about the worshiper and his God.