Stewardship begins with the Lords love for us, not our love for him. It ends with his delight in us, not with our delight in what we have done. Jesus noticed and took delight in a widow who put her last penny in the offering plate. He sings over his people when they passionately give their best to Him.
Life is a faith journey. For the Jews it was traveling from Egypt to a Promised Land. For Covenant it is a journey from where we have been to where we are going as a church. Every one of us is on a pilgrimage from where God found us to where he is taking us.
God audaciously challenges us to test his promise that we cant out-give him. When we act on his promises we discover that his passion always exceeds ours.
Its hard to believe that there could be expansion in tough economic times. But during a famine, God used a widows last meager resources to keep a prophet alive and the Word of God operating in a desperate world. In this passionate story of a bottomless jar of flour is a profound principle of life stewardship and hope.
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