The giving of God

Scripture: He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury; 2 and he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins. 3 And he said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them; 4 for they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all the living that she had." Luke 21:1-4

Reflection: Mercy, compassion and love; if we get our priorities wrong then we could be following a socialist or Marxist Gospel. 

We know him as Christ and hence we may never look at this way; he is encouraging the poor to contribute all their living.  Ah! It sounds scandalous and doesn’t seem to go along with what we know of Christ.

But those who know God and what he is capable of and have God as their priority then these things will never scandalize them. But those who go by human priorities then this action of Jesus can stand condemned like his other actions.  Human Priorities over divine priorities is fraught with eternal danger.

To give is to communicate absolute trust in the divine and let no one test the faith of the absolute giver.  Though not every form of giving is on account of faith in God but the giving of faith is the supreme giving and it witnesses to the supreme giving of God in Christ Jesus. (Jn. 3:16)

Prayer:  Lord, let me know you and thus seek to give as you have given us.

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