Godly Attitudes: The Widow – Sacrificial Generosity Luke 21:1-4
Over the last month, we
have been considering the importance of attitude adjustments and the people who
need them…most importantly, as we have acknowledged, the person on our driver’s
license, the person we see when we look into a mirror. We have confessed that
too often our lives have taken on ungodly attitudes that reflect the attitudes
of many in the world. In Joseph, we heard the
call to let God transform our pessimistic worldview into one that is positive… In Ruth, we discovered
the need to move from faithless to faithful… With Mary, we learned
that we need to leave fear behind and become courageous… While far from being the
last attitude adjustment we need, we come to the last attitude adjustment in
this short series. For this we consider
a nameless, but well known figure within God’s Word, the widow in the Temple. Jesus and His disciples
had entered Jerusalem as many gathered for the week of Passover. As Jesus came into town, He made His way to
the Temple. There he discovered t…