Friday, November 17, 2017

They Give of Their Abundance

   As public debate rages on the tax bill, and the richest 10 percent are given accolades for paying 75 percent of the taxes, I think of a person making, say, $12,000, and of how if that person puts in so much as $10, it is giving up money needed for food and rent. And, I think of a rich person, and of how he loses nothing needed for necessities when he places money out of all the extra he has into the tax coffers.
   And, I think of Mark 12:41-44.
   "And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
   "And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
   "And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
   "For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living."

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