LIFE OFFERING

If you have to choose between receiving $ 1 and $ 10, which one will you pick? If you have to choose between receiving 1 car and 2 cars, which one will you pick? If you ask me the same questions, then without any doubt I will pick the one which is bigger in value or bigger in number, $ 10 and 2 cars. As long it is free...^ ^

It is our nature to value things, this one is bigger, that one is cuter, this one is better. Is it wrong? Of course, not, for it is also God’s nature. But, what is the difference between our judgement and His? It is that He doesn’t value things only based on the seen factors, but also from the unseen factors.

An offering from a poor widow gives us an image that in fact, God is paying attention to people when they give their offerings. He noticed when some rich people gave in a large amount of money to the treasury. Do you think He was unpleased by their offerings? I think He did appreciate those sacrifices. But when He saw a poor widow put in two small cooper coins to the chest, He saw something more than just coins, He saw a life was also offered with the coins.

Jesus knew that the penny is her life – all she had to live on. “All she had” means that the woman might not have any money to buy things (daily needs) for herself, or it was the only last treasure she had to give away to God. The certain point is, without worrying about her future life, the woman was totally surrender to God, she gave her life to God.

Our money is part o our life, or maybe, it is our life. When we give it to God, we are tearing some of the life apart and giving it away with the money as an offering. When we give, we feel hurt, pain, our heart’s in pain, because the money is very important for us. Do you know that, that kind of offering, is the kind of offering God wants from us.

He doesn’t need our money because He is the owner of everything. All that He wants now is our life. An obedient life. A surrendered life. This is our offering, this is our faith.

Dear Father in heaven, thank you. Forgive me for always worrying about myself. I want to learn to give this life to You, to give something that “hurts” my heart. I want to believe in Your care. Father, accept my offering, accept my life. Amen.

... I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything–all she had to live on.

Mark. 12:43-44