Day 5: The Widow's Offering

Jesus sat across from the temple treasury where there were thirteen trumpet-shaped offering chests. The rich would come and give large sums. You could hear the coins clanging. Then a widow dropped in two lepta — the smallest coins in circulation, worth about six minutes of a day's labor. She had two and she gave both. She could have kept one. Jesus stopped everything to say that woman gave more than everyone combined. Why? Because she gave out of faith. She was saying God, I trust You with everything I have, even when everything I have is almost nothing. Jesus was not watching what people gave. He was watching how they gave. The posture of the heart matters more than the size of the gift.