And I had to say is it, LORD? Is it my aim? To know You – yes! To experience the power of Your resurrection? Absolutely! To share in Your suffering? And there I paused. I don’t like it that I paused but I did.
Monthly Archives: November 2017
Watching
Mark 12:41 He sat down opposite the treasury and began watching how the people were putting money into the offering box. Many rich people were putting in a lot. source
He sat watching. Watching the people. Watching who came. Who went. Watching.
He saw her.
Mark 12:42 Then a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, worth less than a penny. 43 Calling His disciples over, He said to them, “Amen, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those contributing to the box! 44 For they all put in from their surplus; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything she had, her whole living.” source
He saw her. And He saw what she gave. He saw the others too. He saw what they didn’t give. He knew. He knew the abundance. He knew the scarcity. He watched. He knew. He still does.
Aren’t you glad?
Chazaq!
Can I Get A Witness?
John 8: 10 Straightening up, Yeshua said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?”
11 “No one, Sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Yeshua said. “Go, and sin no more.” source
We know the story, right? The woman was brought to Jesus by the Pharisees; not because they cared about her or her sins; they were there on an entrapment mission. Read again what happened when they all dropped their stones, from the oldest to the youngest, and walked away.
I think she was scared. Don’t you? I think she was waiting for the stinging and the bleeding to begin. It didn’t. Can we imagine her relief? Can we imagine her breathless, barely audible voice as she said: “No one, Sir.”?
Can we identify?
Yeshua stood between she and the stones. Is Jesus standing between you and a stoning? He is willing to, you know.
