In Mark 12:28–30 the Lord gives
his greatest sermon. He teaches us that the greatest commandment is to love the
Lord thy God with all they heart and soul and mind and strength. He then goes
on to say that the second greatest commandment is to love others as we love
ourselves. Upon these two great commandments hang every other commandment of God.
We can see an excellent example of this in the story of the widow’s mites.
Jesus was watching the people “cast
money into the treasury”. He noted that the wealthy people cast in a lot of
their money. Then he saw a poor widow come forth and toss in two mites. A mite
is a Roman coin of the lowest value. I would compare this to someone tossing in
two pennies. The Savior was very impressed with the sacrifice of this widow and
pointed out this humble act to his disciples. The reason being that the wealthy
people were only giving of their abundance. They were keeping most of their
wealth for themselves. However the widow gave all that she had. This made her
sacrifice so much greater because this spoke of her great love for the Lord.
She was obeying the first commandment by giving her entire worldly wealth to
the Lord. It is also important to note that she did this willingly and with a
humble heart.
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