The last couple weeks have been busy, this week even more so. This is probably the most important and busiest week in the Church calendar. Resurrection Sunday is just ahead.
Some scholars label this day in the life of our Lord as “Busy Tuesday.” Reading through the Gospels you will see Jesus giving the lesson of the withered fig tree, facing a challenge to His authority and debating with the Jewish leaders. He gave many parables of warning as well as a discourse on the last days. Busy Tuesday!
Perhaps my favorite event on Busy Tuesday is found in Luke 21, the story of the widow’s mite. “As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. ‘I tell you the truth,’ he said, ‘this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.’” [v 1-4 NIV]
I like the way it is in the NLT: “For they have given a tiny part of their surplus, but she, poor as she is, has given everything she has.”
A tiny part of our surplus – which could amount to quite a bit depending upon the size of our wealth; or, everything we have—no matter how little or how much that is. Jesus knew the cross was just ahead. He knew that very soon He would be giving everything He had. He would hold nothing back. Can you imagine how lost we would be if Jesus had not given “everything?”
His great love for us inspires us to give our ‘everything’ in return. PTL.
