I Peter 4:12-5:5, Mark 12:38-44
The widow put in the treasury (the collection box of the church), two small rooms (one farthing), but the Lord has said she will put more that anyone, even if others had made dozens and dozens of pieces.
What gave more weight to the penny? That the provision in which the offering was made. Do you see the difference between doing good without a soul, habit, and do good with the soul and heart? This is not the external aspects of an act that give it value, but the interior layout.
Sometimes an act which is remarkable in every respect has no value before God, but an act which is insignificant in appearance is greatly valued. What follows is self-evident. But do not take it intellectually, as free to be careless of outward things, in intend to limit yourself only to things domestic.
This widow did not receive approval if she had said, "I too have the desire to save money but what do I do? I only have two parts. If I give, I will remain with nothing. She had the desire and has acted accordingly, so she gave her life in the hands of God. Person would have convicted if she had nothing put, neither men nor God. But then she would not have revealed such a provision, which distinguished it from others and that made it famous everywhere throughout m the wave Christian.
Version French Claude Lopez-Ginisty
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