Mk12

Does your giving reflect love and faith toward God? The answer is yes! If you are rich and giving large sums of your "surplus" to God, you are still not giving as God desires. He wants our first and our best. Being rich from a biblical perspective is having excess beyond our "needs". I know of few Americans who would not qualify as rich.

The widow gave out of faith. She gave out of poverty. She gave all she had. What she had was not enough to meet her needs. She knew without God's provisions, she would be in want. Yet, rather than justify non-giving, she demonstrated her true love for God by giving. Her eternal reward will be great. She invested well.

I am constantly discouraged by how American christians consume, spend and give. What we call "need" the majority of the world would call luxury. What we call "giving" is almost always out of surplus. God has given us so much. He is watching our giving. I wonder if He is pleased.