OUT OF POVERTY........COMES DEEP DEEP FAITH

OUT OF OUR POVERTY........COMES FAITH




Have you ever
Had trouble
Making or paying your bills
At the end
Of the month


Have you ever wondered
WHERE your next meal
IS coming from


I answer YES
To both questions


And IF you answered yes
To both questions
Or even
ONE of the questions


MAYBE you are like me
And absolutely MESMERIZED
By the story
Of the POOR widow


“As he looked up
Jesus saw the rich
Putting their gifts
Into the temple treasury


He also saw
A poor widow
PUT in two
Very small copper coins


'I tell you the truth,' he said
'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'” Luke 21:1-4


Maybe you are
Like the poor widow
(maybe like me-?-at
DIFFERENT stages of my life)


NOT GIVING very much
To the church
But giving out of
“WHAT you have to live on”


Sometimes
We just have
To bear with it


GIVE till it hurts
So to speak


BEARING with our life
And with our circumstances
FOR AS LONG as is necessary


Yet giving ourselves
To God and to the church
(TIME-MONEY-PRAYER)
In whatever way
WE have
The capacity to give


FROM OUR POVERTY
Physical-financial-spiritual-emotional
COMES DEEP DEEP FAITH


WHEN we continue to GIVE
Despite our poverty
God can WORK miracles
In us and through us


“YOU are the God
Who performs miracles” Psalm 77:14


“'WHERE did this man
Get these things,' they asked


'WHAT'S this wisdom
That has been given him
That he even DOES MIRACLES


ISN'T THIS the carpenter's son........'” Matthew 13:54-55


WHEN we don't think
We can go on


WHEN we don't think
We can bear a circumstance
Any longer


This is when
OPPORTUNIY presents itself


Because
That's a chance
To CONTINUE
To obey God


That's a chance
To suffer and SERVE GOD
In spite of ourselves
And our want to
Give up


That IS WHEN
We continue to move forward
Because our of our poverty
COMES DEEP DEEP FAITH


Because when
We have reached ROCK BOTTOM
Our very next breath


IS a coin in the basket
Like the widow's


And it GIVES GOD
A chance
TO CREATE A MIRACLE


Robert P. Wallman
November 24^th, 2014

Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Elizabeth Duffy