Today's Daily Bread

STEWARDSHIP OF BLESSINGS

Date : Friday, December 19, 2025
Passage : 2Chronicles 31:1~21
Keyverse : 21  
1
When all this had ended, the Israelites who were there went out to the towns of Judah, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. They destroyed the high places and the altars throughout Judah and Benjamin and in Ephraim and Manasseh. After they had destroyed all of them, the Israelites returned to their own towns and to their own property.
2
Hezekiah assigned the priests and Levites to divisions - each of them according to their duties as priests or Levites - to offer burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, to minister, to give thanks and to sing praises at the gates of the LORD’s dwelling.
3
The king contributed from his own possessions for the morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals as written in the Law of the LORD.
4
He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to give the portion due the priests and Levites so they could devote themselves to the Law of the LORD.
5
As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously gave the firstfruits of their grain, new wine, olive oil and honey and all that the fields produced. They brought a great amount, a tithe of everything.
6
The people of Israel and Judah who lived in the towns of Judah also brought a tithe of their herds and flocks and a tithe of the holy things dedicated to the LORD their God, and they piled them in heaps.
7
They began doing this in the third month and finished in the seventh month.
8
When Hezekiah and his officials came and saw the heaps, they praised the LORD and blessed his people Israel.
9
Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the heaps;
10
and Azariah the chief priest, from the family of Zadok, answered, "Since the people began to bring their contributions to the temple of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and plenty to spare, because the LORD has blessed his people, and this great amount is left over."
11
Hezekiah gave orders to prepare storerooms in the temple of the LORD, and this was done.
12
Then they faithfully brought in the contributions, tithes and dedicated gifts. Konaniah, a Levite, was the overseer in charge of these things, and his brother Shimei was next in rank.
13
Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath and Benaiah were assistants of Konaniah and Shimei his brother. All these served by appointment of King Hezekiah and Azariah the official in charge of the temple of God.
14
Kore son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the East Gate, was in charge of the freewill offerings given to God, distributing the contributions made to the LORD and also the consecrated gifts.
15
Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shekaniah assisted him faithfully in the towns of the priests, distributing to their fellow priests according to their divisions, old and young alike.
16
In addition, they distributed to the males three years old or more whose names were in the genealogical records - all who would enter the temple of the LORD to perform the daily duties of their various tasks, according to their responsibilities and their divisions.
17
And they distributed to the priests enrolled by their families in the genealogical records and likewise to the Levites twenty years old or more, according to their responsibilities and their divisions.
18
They included all the little ones, the wives, and the sons and daughters of the whole community listed in these genealogical records. For they were faithful in consecrating themselves.
19
As for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who lived on the farmlands around their towns or in any other towns, men were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among them and to all who were recorded in the genealogies of the Levites.
20
This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah, doing what was good and right and faithful before the LORD his God.
21
In everything that he undertook in the service of God’s temple and in obedience to the law and the commands, he sought his God and worked wholeheartedly. And so he prospered.
When King Hezekiah commanded the people of Judah and Israel to turn back to God, they responded wholeheartedly, celebrating the Passover and Festival of Unleavened Bread with rejoicing (30:21). When they returned home, they repented practically by smashing their idols (1). Then Hezekiah commanded the people to give offerings to continue to support the worship of God, and they responded willingly to this also (4-5). Then there was a new kind of problem: the priests and Levites had more than they needed! (10)

How did Hezekiah respond to this abundance? He built storerooms, then appointed a manager and assistants to take charge of storing and distributing the offerings and keeping accurate records (11-19). The priests and Levites were faithful and not corrupt in how they handled everything (12). The Lord made Israel prosper due to the people’s right attitude and faithfulness (20-21).

Managing times of blessing well is just as important in our life of faith as enduring hard times. If we live before God and are committed to doing what is right in his eyes with all our resources, using them unselfishly for the good of all God’s people, blessing can overflow.

Prayer: Father, thank you for being so willing to bless. Help us maintain and multiply your blessings by faithful stewardship.
One Word: Right attitude + faithfulness = blessing