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Previous Daily Devotional About giving in poverty… Luke 21:2 He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins.3 "I tell you the truth," 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." (NIV) There are times in our walk on Christ's road when we must never count the cost. There
are times when we must not survey the investment value of what we give. For if we look at
giving as an investment that will give us returns, we will only give a part of what we
are. We are all supposed to give our all. We are supposed to empty out the coffers of our
soul before Christ. We are supposed to give out of our poverty, not out of our plenty. The
power of Christ in us demands we never look back over our shoulder to see the benefit of
what we do, but the power of Christ in us calls us to humbly kneel at His Cross. When we
are willing to surrender our last mite of resources, a blessing ensues. The blessing may
never come to us in this life, but we are not supposed to be enslaved to this life. We are
called to be giving and compassionate out of our need. When we need, we are to give. As
radical an idea as this might be to the world, it is the cornerstone upon which our lives
must rest. We do not know what happened to the widow in this life. She might easily have
died of hunger. What she left behind, however, has endured for over two thousand years. We
must remember that it is not what we get in return from our giving, it is what we give
without caring about a return that glorifies God. |
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