While the rich give with much that is little,
A widow drops in her mites, so brittle.
Jesus sees her by the temple's door,
This woman with her small, sacrificial store.
Her gift goes unnoticed by many a man,
But to the eyes of Christ, it's all that she can.
Are we willing to give without recognition,
To sacrifice our time and resources without concession?
We long for validation, a story to be heard,
For others to affirm us, to be seen, not blurred.
Society tells us to promote ourselves with pride,
But this leads to destruction, where love can't reside.
The scriptures are clear, pride must give way,
To humility and service, in the Lord's display.
Moses, Jacob, John, the Centurion all say,
"I am not worthy," with humbled hearts each day.
It's time to remember the way of the cross,
To do small things with love, without fame or concern of loss.
The anonymity of service, with no one to know,
Is the way to live for Christ, where love continues to grow.
About Brandan Kraft
Brandan Kraft is a computer programmer from the Missouri Ozarks who has been writing about the sovereign grace of God since 1997. He started with a website called bornagain.net, built it into PristineGrace.org, and has published over two hundred articles, nearly sixty songs, and a growing catalog of podcasts from his living room in Ashland, Kentucky. All without permission from anyone.
He holds no seminary degree, no denominational endorsement, and no theological credentials. He has been writing software for the same employer since 1998. He thinks in systems and believes that the sharpest doctrine should produce the widest arms.
His systematic theology, A Thought in the Mind of God, derives every position from one sentence and applies it across every domain - from ontology to eschatology, from the nature of the human mind to the nature of heaven and hell. It is available at pristinegrace.org/mind.
Brandan lives in Ashland, Kentucky with his wife Angie and their son Cole. He plays trombone in the Marshall University Tri-State Brass Band and changes a diaper twice a day on a cat named OJ who was once paralyzed and whom nobody else wanted.
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