This Sunday’s gospel (MK 12: 38-44) is about the widow who gave her last two “mites” to the temple treasury. She could easily have put one in the offering and kept one for herself but this woman put in everything she had. St Mark makes clear that the widow’s two small coins were the reminder of her earthly wealth.
The English version of the bible says, “She put in all she had to live on.”
The original Greek is a little bit different and gives a better perspective – “She gave her whole life.”
If she gave her whole life to God, she would walk out of the temple area with absolutely nothing. Nothing, that is, except her faith in God is so great that she gives all she has to God, knowing He will provide.
What would you have done?
Giving frees us from greediness and sets us free to depend on God. A Christian who gives all straight from the heart is a powerful and a true disciple of Christ.
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