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Scripture
As he was teaching, he said, “Watch out for the legal experts. They like to walk around in long robes. They want to be greeted with honor in the markets. 39 They long for places of honor in the synagogues and at banquets. 40 They are the ones who cheat widows out of their homes, and to show off they say long prayers. They will be judged most harshly.”
*But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.*
43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. 44 They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.” Mark 12:42-44
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Who are the influencers in your life?
Who were the scribes?
What was the significance of the woman’s offering?
Jesus gives us a picture of two paths we can walk. What are they?
Are you reflecting a life of Christ?
Are you embodying the resurrection and the life?
In verses Ephesians 1:18-19, Paul prayed that “the eyes of your heart” will be able “to see what is the hope of God’s call, what is the richness of God’s glorious inheritance among believers, and what is the overwhelming greatness of God’s power that is working among us believers.” How would it change your worship and your workdays if your eyes “saw” that kind of hope and power at work daily in your life?
? In what ways can you see God, not as distant, but as close as the air you breathe?
The psalmist of Psalm 101:1-4 lived in a world with no Twitter or Instagram to carry celebrity photos or stories about infidelity or other scandals, in fact no Internet at all, no printing and therefore no tabloid papers, no television or radio. Yet verse 3 said even then, he could find “worthless” things, but refused to set his eyes on them.
? What kinds of choices would you need to make to join in the psalmist’s resolve to not set eyes on “anything worthless”?