way to tell is to look at the priorities we give his house and his work. We need the blessing of putting God’s house first! It may be that God’s people hedge because they cast long glances at their own financial needs and decide to skimp on God’s house. In other words, people don’t give and work for God as they should because they have the idea that by so doing they themselves will lack. But as the Lord points out in verses 6 and 9 to 11, that idea backfires. The gist of what the Lord is saying in