"Test Me in This," Says the Lord Almighty

"Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me.

"But you ask, 'How do we rob you?'

"In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it." - Malachi 3:8-10

"God, why do you put your finger on what I think I want most and claim it as your own?"

I know I have asked this of God.

God's response to me has often been the same response that He gave to the people of Israel, as spoken through Malachi.

"Test Me." God says. "Give Me everything."

"But..." (What marvelous conjunctions are in God's vocabulary!) "See, if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it."

Why am I so reluctant to part with with what I want when every single time that I have ever released my-kingdom-come for Thy-kingdom-come, I have not found enough room to house the blessing?