THE WIDOW WITH TWO MITES!!

We can take an incredible lesson from the woman who gave two mites. In Mark 12:41-44 Jesus and His disciples "sat opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money into the treasury." As Jesus was watching He noticed the rich putting much into the treasury. But then, this poor widow woman went to give her treasury contribution and put in only two mites. When Jesus saw this woman and the contribution that she made, "He called the disciples to Himself and saying to them, "Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury;for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood."" When growing up I always heard the story of this poor widow when discussing how one's attitude should be when giving back to the church. Certainly, we should have a very selfless attitude when contributing back to the church. God has given us so much,(James 1:17) it is very important that we show thanks and gratitude when the collection plate is passed around on Sunday morning. But what other lessons can we learn from this special woman?!? Well, I think that we can apply this to our spiritual life in general. I discussed earlier in a post about never looking back to our old life of sin when we become Christians. Well, not only should we not look back, but we should give the Christian life all that we have within us. All of our time and effort should be spent glorifying God and His Son. We should be giving God and Jesus everything that we have. Whether it be our time, money, family,or our friends, we should give our ALL in doing what God wants us to do. After all, He did such an amazing thing for all of us. Also, consider the amount of faith this great woman had to have had to put in her whole livelihood and know that God was going to provide everything that she was going to need. That takes tremendous faith. This woman's love of God was great. Let's show God that He is great and loved by giving Him our ALL.

This story is also found in Luke 21:1-4

-Linzee