All to Him

"And He said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God, with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind."

Matthew 22: 21

Someone had tweeted : "The Great Commission is not going to be fulfilled by our spare time and spare change" . I couldn't agree more... Somehow we knowingly or unknowingly have slipped into this spare time and spare change mentality when it comes to us giving to Him. We pack our schedules with whatever concerns us and if there is spare time then we say "oh ok ..since my kid doesn't have this extra class today , I think I can make it to church" , "oh ok i have some free time today so I can make it for prayers... " . Even in our giving sometimes we get caught up in the technicality of giving to God that we let Mathematics of "one-tenth" drive our giving rather than the heart which chooses to honour God with all that we have.

We read in Luke 21 : 1-4, "Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and He saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”"

She put in ALL she had to live on. She had only those two copper coins...she was poor and a widow... but yet out of her poverty she put in ALL she had... Its not like she had a back up of groceries for a year that she could fall back on... Nope... We read that "she put in all she had to live on". 

That woman did an act in the quietness of her and God. And here we are reading about it 2000 years later... An act that puts most of us to shame. Do we have that same heart ? 

She went to place an offering unto the Lord and she gave all that she had to live on.

We know the commandment "You shall love the Lord your God, with ALL your heart and with ALL your soul and with ALL your mind."  We read in Deuteronomy 6 : 5 , "You shall love the LORD your God with ALL your heart and with ALL your soul and with ALL your might."

Do we find ourselves giving our ALL to Him ? 

God Bless