Dayv and I have lived in our "small" town house for a year now. I sometimes feel like we live in a can of sardines! It has often kept me from having people over for fear that they will not feel "comfortable". We also still have our VA house which puts a strain on our budget. We are thankfully able to pay bills each month, but that's about it...forget being able to support a missionary or have a compassion child.
Have you ever felt constrained by what you have? Not enough time, money or space? When you think about how the rest of the world lives, you might feel differently about how much you do have. I love reading "Voices of the Faithful". I read this after dreaming with Dayv of a bigger home to minister out of and more money to "do" for God. The devotional that night was about a missionary in Africa who ministered to the poorest of the poor. One day as church service was ending, the people reminded the missionary that they had not yet taken tithes/offering. The missionary shared his humbleness as the people put in the equivalent of pennies, but did so with such a thankful and excited heart that they were serving God.
Mark 12:41-44 "And He sat down opposite the treasury, and began observing how the people were putting money into the treasury; and many rich people were putting in large sums. A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amount to a cent. Calling His disciples to Him, He said to them, 'Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the contributors to the treasury; for they all put in out of their surplus, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned,[f]all she had to live on.'"
So let me ask you, do you have enough?
