Giving All Even When You Think It’s Small
Luke 21:1-4 New Living Translation
(NLT)
21 While
Jesus was in the Temple, he watched the rich people dropping their gifts in the
collection box. 2 Then a poor widow came by and dropped in two
small coins. 3 “I tell you the truth,” Jesus said, “this poor
widow has given more than all the rest of them. 4 For they have
given a tiny part of their surplus, but she, poor as she is, has given
everything she has.”
Have
you ever looked at a group of people and thought that you were not good enough
to be around them, because you didn’t make enough money or did not live in the
neighborhood they lived in? Have you ever thought that you would not attend a
certain function because of what you knew everyone else would have on in
comparison to what you would wear? Have you ever thought that where you were in
life and all that you had been through had disqualified you because you didn’t
possess enough knowledge, money, status, or some other element you thought was
important in the secular or world’s scheme of thinking? Recently, I watched people give not out of
their excess but out of their heart, and it proved something to me; that God is
not interested in what you don’t have, He is interested in what you do have and
are willing to give to Him.
One thing I have
learned during this journey with the Lord is that in God there is no small
amount when that amount is all you have to give and you are willfully
surrendering it to Him for His use and Glory.
It can only be small when you and I have a lot and choose to hold on to
the much and only give or surrender the little.
Recently, I have been challenged in my thinking. I have several degrees, but the degree I am
in pursuit of now is counseling, but my spirit is challenging me to get a
degree in an area that I feel less than qualified to do and it is something I
do not even have a desire to be involved in because of my past experiences in that
arena; it is also something that “people” will think I am not qualified to
accomplish. My God daughter helped me tremendously
(although I hate to tell her she is right), she heard a part of Bible study on
Wednesday that she related to my situation and she tried to call me to see if I
was in church; well fortunate for her I was in church hearing the same
words. The words our Bishop spoke were
in reference to faith, and us not seeing the manifestation of it because we
were not believing correctly and acting on His word in a way to see it manifest
because God was taking us somewhere we did not want to go. Oh how true these words in my case are and
this is why for the past year I have been running from making that turn to get on
the track I am supposed to be on. I have
been thinking that I don’t have enough, and the place God wants me to go is too
big for my little offering.
Many of us will
miss the blessing of reaping an abundant harvest and being in God’s perfect
will because we are looking at our gift, our lives, our ministry, our business,
our finances as too little, when God is trying to tell us what we have to give
is all of us and that is what makes it monumental, and what is most precious in
His sight. When we are looking with
natural eyes and with the knowledge of man or humanity, we are limited and what
we are and have to give often will appear small, not enough or insignificant,
but in God’s eyes it is all He needs to bring us to the place He desires for us
to be. Our gift may be despised among
men, but it is the most prized with God.
King Saul learned the hard way the obedience is better than the
sacrifice, don’t you learn that lesson the hard way. No matter what you have,
what you see it as give it all to God and watch Him turn what you viewed as
small or little into great, mighty, powerful and relevant!
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