Sunday, June 30, 2013
Sunday Reflection: The Widow's Mite
[Jesus] looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had.”
Is it easier for the poor to be close to God, and to understand Jesus? Maybe it is-- Jesus seemed to think so. There is a bare truth that one must accept before coming into a true relation with God, and it is this: I am not God. That is, it starts with acknowledging that there is someone more powerful and intelligent and important than I am. It's the simplest form of humility, but the most important, too. The poor, humbled by the world, perhaps have an easier time of that.
