Wednesday, August 26, 2015

The Widow's Mites




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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