A very poor family employed a farmhand who worked from early in the morning until late at night in exchange for room and board and the customary wage of 20 centimes per month.
The farmhand always went to church. So he divided his 20 centimes so that he could put 5 centimes in the collection box every Sunday. He always radiated great gratitude because God gave him everything he needed to live.
A hundred years later, we are discussing new poverty and excessive salaries. That farmhand understood a lot about God’s principles and heavenly riches. Our prosperity and insatiable greed have literally destroyed the healthy relationships that are essential to life.
Jesus pointed his disciples to a poor widow who could only put a little into the offering box: “She has given more than all the others. They have all given only a portion of their surplus. She gave everything she herself urgently needed to live.”
“This poor widow has given more than all the others.”
said Jesus in Mark
How do you deal with giving?
Weekly text: Mark 12, 41–44
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
