Offering All

Luke 21: 1-4

The Widow’s Offering

21 As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. ² He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. ³ “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. ⁴ All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”

When we reflect on the challenge presented in these four short verses,  we cannot but be struck by its enormous magnitude and repercussions: to give ALL, leaving nothing behind for security.  It is such trust that makes life in the Kingdom of Jesus different from a life of caution, fear or half-measures.  We shun the uncomfortable, or the constant cry of the needy or of ourselves who never seem to be satisfied and continually ask for more.  Even when we are able to give what they ask, or receive what we ask, our demands continue, forcing us into the bottom of our resources and prodding us to call on God, the ever faithful provider whose pantry is never emptied. When we have given our ALL, as this widow has done, then we know we have the blessing of Jesus which out measures anything we have given.

Bro. Rene