On today’s show, Dave and Reb speak with Rev. Ray Borg of Financial Discipleship Canada and notmine.ca about the meaning and context of the story of the widow who gave all she had in the temple courts. Recording before mid-March and the Covid-19 pandemic, Dave and Reb and the team at More Than Enough wanted to share the insights from this conversation, continuing to follow their monthly theme of parables and stories Jesus told.
They read from the story found in Luke 21, when Jesus, in the middle of the teaching and warning he gives about the religious leaders who “devour widow’s houses”, looks up and sees a widow giving her two copper coins. Juxtaposed against her giving is the rich man giving his offering.
In verse 3 Jesus says, “Truly I tell you…this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”
The rich man gave out of his wealth, but Jesus says the widow gave even more, by giving all she had. Together, Dave and Reb discuss with Ray what that looks like for each of us today in the context of our western society.
They agree that the disciples, to whom Jesus was speaking, seem to have missed the point of what Jesus was trying to show them. The disciples seem so focused on the beauty of the temple itself, they miss the beauty of the widow and her gift.
Listen in to hear their discussion which today is sponsored by Financial Advisor Fred Brogan of Kingston’s Empirical Financial – Brogan and Associates. Go to empiricalgroup.ca or call 613-634-9900 for more information.