Today marks Time-Tithe Day 2019. I haven’t heard the term before. So, if you have a copyright on Time-Tithe, by all means, comment and take credit for coining the phrase!

Today is the 37th day of 2019. So, today at noon, 36.5 days have elapsed this year. That means if you had started giving 100% of your time to the Lord when the ball dropped at midnight, January 1, 2019, you will have fulfilled tithing your time for this year. What is a time-tithe, anyway?

Tithing our time is a legalistic way of offering our time to serve the Lord. Technically, if we want to tithe our time to the Kingdom, we would have to serve 2.4 hours per day. But surely the Lord wants for us to sleep! Right? Let’s assume we get eight hours of sleep per night which would subtract 0.8 hours from our waking tithe, leaving 1.6 hours to serve. Are you doing that? Serving 1.6 hours per day in the Lord’s Kingdom?

I posed some questions to my congregation this past Sunday: 1) What have you completely surrendered to Christ? 2) What are the evidences that you have completely surrendered anything to Christ? It was a bit of a surprise to see the looks on their faces when confronted with these questions along with a sheet of paper and a pen with which to write. It was even more of a surprise to the congregation when I, their pastor, admitted that I had more trouble answering these questions than I should have.

We want to be in control of everything in our lives, including our time. But we often find that we are poor managers of our own time. What might be a plausible solution. Let’s consider 2 Corinthians 9:6-7 (NASB95):

6 Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

7 Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

If you aren’t realizing good productivity for the time you are spending this year, perhaps you have sown sparingly in the Kingdom. By giving God freely of our time, He blesses us with more productivity and the knowledge of better stewardship. I don’t propose we make tithing our time a legalistic pursuit. I propose we try giving God as much as we cheerfully can and then expecting to reap abundantly for doing so. Blessings to everyone!