All of us learned about the Widows Mite in Sunday School.
Good story - great lesson.
We talked about it Sunday PM during our training meeting. It occurred to me that while it's about the giving of all we have it's also about Jesus seeing.
He has his eye on her. He sees what she did. Her heart.
I have had this midrashic thought. Here, the creator of the universe, King of all Kings, Savior of the World, Fullness of Jehovah Jairah is watching this. Do you think for a minute that poor woman ever missed a thing after that? That her cruz of Oil ever ran out? I'm guessing that provision came to her house ever after. She may not have understood why favor came, but her obedience I suspect touched the heart of Jesus and he said to the angels, you watch over her, you take care of her, let nothing harm her and see to it things come her way.
She would not have understood until she stood on streets of gold. When she did understand it would only have caused her to bow in worship even more.
IF our Father sees every hair and every sparrow and he sees the widows mite, how he must care for all of these.
I don't imagine for a second that the Father allowed her to go home penniless, sit in the dark in her room and starve in pain of death alone. I believe she lived her fullness of days and stepped from time to eternity in Joy. Jesus saw, he took note, and that counts for everything.
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Yes, God, of course, KNOWS WHAT we give, and HOW MUCH we give. But especially HOW we give. The rich ones cast in MUCH. GOD saw that too, but was it only "out of religious 'duty'? They had the law of the tithe. So did the widow. Yet she gave 100%. Jesus said she gave more, because she gave 100%. The rest of the Scripture teaches us about stewardship, especially 1 Cor. 16:2, and 2 Corinth. 8 and 9.
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