It’s Only A Penny
Luke 21:1-4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
1LOOKING UP, [Jesus] saw the rich people putting their gifts into the treasury. 2And He saw also a poor widow putting in two mites (copper coins). 3And He said, Truly I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them; 4For they all gave out of their abundance (their surplus); but she has contributed out of her lack and her want, putting in all that she had on which to live.
Every day when my husband and I walk, we find at least one penny, more recently we have been finding three and four pennies on our walk. It would appear that people disregard pennies because they are the least on the currency scale and because it they have little to no value to them; they are the smallest amount in on our currency system, but what is funny about that is that one hundred pennies make a dollar, and a dollar we would gladly keep. Every time my mother finds a penny she says that is one cent more than she had a minute ago. I heard a sermon a few years back, the pastor was relaying a story about a mother in the church that would find pennies and keep them, and she was asked why, the women replied have you ever looked at a penny, the person she was in conversation with replied yes. She handed the penny to the individual and asked her to inspect it one more time, the individual did, and the mother of the church asked what the penny said, the individual replied it says “in God we trust,” she said that is why I will always pick up a penny and keep it, it reminds me to trust God. Today as I picked up one of the three pennies found on our journey I thought, yes “in God I trust,” but I also thought as my mother identified God is a provider.
In this scripture a mite was half of a penny, but it was the smallest amount of currency they possessed in that time. But the funny thing is some looked and saw it was only two mites, but to the woman that was giving it she was exemplifying by her actions “In God she trusts.” She was giving all she had, trusting God that he would be her provider. A penny is only a penny in the hands of some, but it is a symbol of hope and faith for others, and for some it is a reminder that God does provide. The least of things to one may be everything to someone else. It is this way with us and God, to some of us, God is not just everything, but He is the one we cannot do without or make it without. For others He is just God, and he is there when we need Him, but He can be easily discarded because He to us has not become a tangible life force in our lives. God becomes who the person whose life He possesses sees Him to be. But regardless of how much or how little we have monetarily we should understand the value of who God is, He should not be an afterthought, or the least in our lives. He should not be the smallest portion of what we represent but instead He should be the largest.
Just as a penny is not just a penny, it is a symbol, and a reminder; God is not just God someone I say that I serve. He is my all, and my everything. As the song says, “God is the source and the strength of my life, He moves all pain misery and strife, He promised to keep me, never to leave me and never, never fall short of His word!” God should be our all and all, not just Him, He or the name we call after all else fails or the one we consider of little value until He is all we have left. When we are living daily we should know that we are giving away that God that signifies everything in us, not just the least of us! It’s not just God, just like it’s not just a penny, He is reliant upon who holds Him, what they see in Him and how they utilize Him, just like that penny!
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