But this reminds me of the story of the poor widow in Mark 12:41-44. She gave out of her poverty and Jesus loved it...far more than the big givings of the rich. Jesus said she put in all that she had. That is really challenging and also disturbing. Does that mean, we need to do the same? Does it mean that we should give until we hurt? What do you think?
Monday, October 20, 2008
Money, money, money...
There was a time when I had to live by faith. I went to serve as a missionary on MV Doulos of Operation Mobilisation. Going out without a guaranteed support was scary and I was only in my early 20s. Yet, God provided faithfully during the two years away. My support was met all the time. For that, I was very grateful. Even though I did not have much money when I was on board the ship, yet I had learnt to tithe and continued to do so. It was actually quite a miserably small sum...which I would be embarrassed to mention.
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hi ps. kee chuan,
ReplyDeletewelcome to the blogsphere....
It reminds me of time when I fresh graduated from school. It was excited to see how God poured His blessings upon me everytime I thought I will have not enough for the month.
ReplyDeleteMum thought I was over positive at my situation. She was not believe everything was from above until things were repeated for months. Praise God for that.
Bring back to the question, are we suppose to GIVE until we hurt?? I'm afraid so. A rich man who give the ten thousand would probably 1% of his wealth. But the ten thousand to many of us would probably the wages of years. Thank God for His "fairness". Or else many of us would forever not be able to please Him. :P However, even talk about that, still it is challenging, isn't it? I felt I'm so far to talk about giving.