Money Matters: Giving as Worship
by Marilynn Chadwick
I shared yesterday how my friend Angela challenged me with her sacrificial giving and great faith. She firmly believes the poor widow in Luke's story had seen God come through for her before (Luke 21:1-4). She had faith he would care for her again. But it was Angela's final comment that brought a new dimension to the power of the widow's gift. Angela said quietly, "For this woman, her gift is her worship. This story of the poor widow is all about worship."
No one else in Luke's accounts of Jesus's teachings did what the poor widow did—which was to give away "all she had…
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