2 Chronicles 31:6

2 Chronicles 31:6 says, And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the Lord their God, and laid them by heaps.  Those people of Israel, God's chosen people as a whole, who lived in Judah brought the holy things consecrated to God and laid them up by heaps.  Not all of His people were doing this, since those who were part of the other part of the divided kingdom, Israel, did not become involved.  As Christians, we are all part of the same family of God and we need to be united in obeying His commandments and doing His work.  Still, if some who call themselves Christians are allowing false teachings into their worship services, we need to separate ourselves from them and pray that they will begin to follow God's commandments once again.  Verse seven adds, In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.  For four months, they worked laying the foundation of the heaps.  Matthew Henry says they had not been making these heaps to hoard them but to show how much God had blessed them by having this much left over.  We don't need to hoard the things that God blesses us with but need to use them to do His work, and if we do, He will always abundantly bless us.  Verse eight continues, And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord, and his people Israel.  When the king and the princes saw these heaps of the tithes, it says they blessed God and His people.  I believe this would more accurately be that they praised God, because He blessed them and not the other way around, and the same is true today.  Verse nine states, Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.  Though I have already discussed what the heaps were, it was in this verse that Hezekiah questioned the Levites about them, after he had already praised God for them.  If we see that God is richly blessing the church today, especially our local congregation, maybe we need to ask why He is doing so and what He wants us to do with the things He has blessed us with, and not just hoard them unused.  The same applies to individual Christians, I believe.  Verse ten adds, And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.  Azariah the chief priest told Hezekiah that since the people had started bringing their offerings to God, they had all their needs met and this was what was left over, as already stated earlier.  As followers of Christ, if we all begin to bring our tithes and offerings to God, I believe all our needs will still be met and the church will have an abundance to do what we need to do collectively.  I also believe we should do this with rejoicing and not with complaining.