"Qualified" Full-Tithe Payer

Here's a fun scenario:

You receive your paycheck Saturday from picking turnips in the field or selling turnip futures in the office, but the bank places a 3-day hold on your funds. Oh, drat, Monday is also closed for the MLK holiday . You *really* want to pay your tithing to the bishop at Church, because ... well ... that's what we do. So, you write your tithing check and give it to the bishop, but you request that he not cash it until after Thursday. Whew, glad to get that off my chest! Those funds would have been burning a hole in my pocket, I mean, of course after the MLK holiday and the 3-day bank hold. But I am a full-tithe payer! I an entitled to *all* of the blessings of the faithful [tithe-payers]!

So the "10%-of-your-increase" question of the day: are you really a full-tithe payer? I contend that you are not a full-tithe payer. Or rather, that you are a "qualified" full-tithe payer. Yes, you meet the letter of the law. But if you are placing restrictions on when the Lord can access said monies, I think you are "qualifying" yourself in the blessings department.

If it's just a technicality, then why don't you keep your own tithing envelope until the funds are available? When I, I mean a friend of mine in a bishopric, asked these people to just keep it themselves, they told me, I mean him, that they didn't want to lose the envelope, or they wanted to make sure they could say they are full-tithe payers, or that they really needed the Lord's blessings this week, or some just stared at him like he was daft or something for even asking that or questioning their obedience.?.

I guess we'll never know in this life. But to be on the safe-side, better be sure not to die before the bank clears the tithing cheque on Thursday. I'm not sure how open for "clarifying explanations" St. Peter is at the Pearly Gates.

Comments, disagreements?