Family Devotional

Read the story of the widow’s offering from Mark 12 or follow the link to watch the story from Saddleback Kids

Giving to God is simple. You give what you can out of faith that God will do way more than you could!

Talk about it: How much did the widow give? Why did Jesus say she gave more if the amount of coins was so much less? Why would we say she gave out of faith?

The widow was committed to letting God use her. She was committed to giving of what she had. She had very little. It was likely scary to even give two coins, because she may not have had enough coins left to buy food. But she knew that giving to God came first.

God owns everything that we have. He simply lets us use it, like the servants with their master’s coins. We can use it wisely or selfishly. How can we use things wisely?

As a family, what is something that we can commit to in this generosity initiative that would be giving so much it feels a little scary?

(Hold a garage sale and give all of the earnings to God, make a lemonade stand and give out drinks for free and tell everyone Jesus loves them, donate your old clothes to a shelter, make bags of socks for the car to give to people who are asking for help on the side of the road, decide an amount you want to give from your birthday money before you know how much you will get)

Pass around your gratitude rock as you pray for God to help you make these commitments out of love for Him and people. Pray to have faith and generosity like the widow!