Deliberately Remembering

"When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it,   you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.  And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, 'I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.' -  Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God. - Deuteronomy 26:1-4
What is this big deal about giving and tithing with God?  It’s not about anything He needs , but about what we need. We need to be intentional about who we are, where we came from and Who we belong to. If we do not set out to remember we will forget and suffer for it. We will fall back into out old traps and get hurt. But when we actively choose to give we keep ourselves alive and purposeful.