Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Relative Resources
The woman who dropped two small coins into the box at the temple gave more than all the others (Luk 21:1-4). It’s not how much you give. It’s how much you give relative to what you have been given. Of him who is given much, much is required (Luk 12:48). Also note that Jesus did not quibble about where she applied her resources. The temple box was hardly worthy of her resources considering the rampant corruption that was going on there (Mar 11:17, 12:40). Jesus saw beyond the size of the gift and where it was applied. Jesus saw the widow’s heart. Resources were not the issue. God is not constrained by resources. Rather, it was her heart that mattered.
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