Fall regularly brings brightly colored leaves, gorging bears, cooler temperatures, and Giving Sundays. Yes, Giving Sundays where churches present the current year’s financial picture, next year’s proposed budget, and every five to ten years, a capital building project. We are exhorted to pray, and give as God leads us.
As we approach year end, we hear “help us finish strong” with our “budget in the black” not only from churches but also from the many organizations who rely primarily on generosity for their operation, e.g., food banks, homeless shelters, organizations who sponsor research into specific diseases, etc.
Fund raising is a professional field with an interesting variety of tools that either benignly or intrusively research our net worth and our giving capacity.
In the Book of Exodus, the Israelites are given instructions on building the Tabernacle, very specific instructions. Fine linens, hammered gold, etched jewels, bronze incense burners, dyed sea cow hides are just some of the articles going into Tabernacle. As God’s House among them, the symbol of His Presence with them, the Tabernacle was magnificent, a reminder in very many ways of the triumvirate of sin, blood, and redemption.
After what I imagine was quite a stirring sermon from Moses on Giving Sabbath, the people brought all manner of gifts for the Tabernacle. Some of the gifts were raw material for the craftsmen to use, some of them were finished products, some were supporting materials, e.g., wood for the forges, etc.
And they kept coming with gifts, until finally the skilled craftsmen “left their work” and told Moses there was “more than enough to do the work the Lord commanded to be done.” Moses had to tell the people to stop giving (Exodus 36:3-7).
Imagine. The people of God respond out of their blessings with such generosity that they must be told to stop giving. Hearts obey the call to provide for God’s work in such a way that the abundance is unmanageable.
Who needs Giving Sunday if you have obedient and generous hearts?
Just Sayin' 
Moses, what are we going to do with all these doorknobs?