So…it’s been a week since my last blog entry…and I am ready, once again, to harvest some creativity, ideas, and thoughts. I couldn’t pick a better place for inspiration…the local coffee house. As I sit here writing and trying to really collect my thoughts, I can’t help but overhear the two gentlemen next to me talking about how God gave one of them a dream and he is in hot pursuit of it. Great conversation…great passion…

Moving on…

Had an awesome revelation this week of God, people, and our part to play in His divine plan. I know…sounds like deep heavy stuff. It might be…but it’s simple. It’s just tucked away in the depth of the words and scene of a story. We miss it because we are lost in instruction, rather than being eviromental. What do I mean? It’s kind of like this…We see the obvious because that was and is the initial purpose of the teachings of Christ. We see the instructional commands…give, love, obedience, etc. What we miss are the actions and scene of what led up to certain scenerios. Why? Because they seem so insignificant…yet without those minors, we wouldn’t have any majors.

Let me just show you…Let’s use this scripture…Luke 21: 1-4 (NLT)

"While Jesus was in the Temple, he watched the rich people dropping their gifts in the collection box. Then a poor widow came by and dropped in two small coins. “I tell you the truth,” Jesus said, “this poor widow has given more than all the rest of them. For they have given a tiny part of their surplus, but she, poor as she is, has given everything she has."

I’ve talked in great deal how “Jesus is watching” his people. It’s also easy to see what the moral of this story is also. We know what we are supposed to glean from this scripture, so we move on and keep reading…and when we do, we miss the insignificant things. However the insignificant is extraordinary, life changing, and ripples time forever.

Let me just get to it…

Jesus was not only watching this situation, but he was also waiting. He was waiting on His servant. This “poor widow” who was rich in Spirit was approaching the collection box. She had nothing. She was poor. Food was a struggle. Material things were only dreams in her life. And if we are all being honest with ourselves, she probably never pictured herself as of being any value because of her current status. I think we can go a step farther and even say that she probably didn’t plan for her life to be that way either.

Who plans on being poor and a widow? It’s hard enough being poor…but being alone?

With one set back over another…her childlike dreams are crushed by one blow after another. She’s human, you know. Don’t we all dream of how our life might turn out? I promise you, she didn’t picture being poor and a widow. Who plans on that?

I can only imagine how she must have been feeling as she approached the collection box. All of those emotions inside…I’m just guessing here…but I bet she felt insignificant. She probably didn’t even feel ordinary. What could she offer anyone? She was poor. She had no husband. She has nothing. But…somewhere deep inside something tells her that she has the Lord. Something whispers in here ear that there is “victory for the upright”. Something urges her to give what little she has in great hopes that God will use it in a way she can’t imagine. Then something awesome happens…

Enter Jesus…in the temple…watching…waiting…He knows what is about to happen because He knows the hearts of His own. He starts to gather His chosen leaders around Himself and says, “Did you see that?” They were oblivious…they didn’t see anything. They just saw a women giving in the offering. Jesus saw something that would revolutionize the church forever. They saw an ordinary poor widow. Jesus saw an extraordinary huge heart of passion. She was completely unaware that anyone was watching and for all we know she never knew that she would be a discussion that would carry on all the way till today. I’m sure she felt her life was insignificant…too simple to make any difference. Society tells us that poor widows don’t change the world. However, in the Kingdom of God, poor widows make for great preachers and church builders. The evidence is in the Book of Acts.

Do you feel insignificant? Don’t feel like you’re making a difference? How do you know you haven’t made a difference already? How do you know you haven’t already impacted someone so greatly as to set into motion a great chain of events that will change the world? You don’t. You can’t know. That is what makes each day so special. We might never know the impact we are making…but there is this one truth…we are making an impact.