Luke 21:1-6 What is she that you are mindful of her?

They are rich. They are giving. They are offerings they give. Their richness appears in what they give. A woman came. It seems nothing is in her hand. No bag, no box. Almost sounded empty. She dropped two coins. She also a widow.

"she dropped only two coins?" disciples said to themselves. Jesus said, "she had only two coins". Disciples are watching the same thing that Jesus was watching. They are not watching the same way that Jesus was watching. 

"What is she that our Lord is mindful of her?", disciples thought. They went to Jesus and said, "come Lord. See these valuable stones. How beautiful the temple was built because of the offerings". 

Yes her offering cannot buy a single stone there. Its all because of the big offerings the rich people gave. They know how to buy their credits in the church. 

Jesus said, "yes. Let them build. But it won't stay. The day is coming that each stone will be removed." What is a gift if he did not take it?

Let the disciples mindful of granite, even now. Jesus is mindful of granny. Her husband died but she never chose a way for coins. She brought everything she had. She emptied herself. She emptied and made a way that the Lord would come and fill. She did not use it for a bribe. She love the Lord so she gave ALL that she has. Disciples gave their attention to the temple and she pulled the attention of the Lord of the temple. They said she has nothing but she got every thing that Jesus is mindful of her.

Voice of the Lord

God's voice was heard by Adam and Eve when they actually disqualified to hear it. It was God's grace even from the time of creation. First he initiates his voice and we need to continue it. Disciples on the way to Emmaus did not expect the voice of the Lord but was talking about him. The Lord himself came there and talked to them. (Lk. 24) He initiates. After a while they wanted to stop but he seems to be walking. Now its their turn to continue the talk. They beseech him to stay with them so he did. 

God talked to Cain when he committed sin. Its possible. It doesn't mean the Lord will continue. If he wants to hear it again, he cannot just wait but he need to learn to beseech. After all that is what he failed in. We are like Cain some times. We need to ask God and wait. Often times we do knock the door of the neighbor and then wait for them. When it comes to God we wait without knocking. Its not right. 

Hagar was in the wilderness with her son. Her son has no food or water. Now she could not see his death. She cried. The angel said that God heard the voice of Ishmael her son. Gen. 21:17. I don't think Ishmael addressed Jehovah while he was crying. Yet God heard his voice. Ishmael was not the son of the covenant but connected to the man with whom was the covenant made. If God can hear the cry of those who are connected to you, how much more he inclines to you to whom the covenant was made?

His voice is for teaching and to discipline us. (Dt. 4:36)
His voice is some times not for the ear but for the eye to see. God said to Elijah that he commanded a widow to feed him. Actually she never heard a voice from the Lord. We could see that it just came to happen. She fed Elijah. 

Wherever you are God provides.

God is the provider. People who ate from his hands usually do not recognize it. Israelites openly said to Jeremiah that they ate well when they worship the stars. Jer. 44:17. God brought them to starving. Jer. 52:6

Jacob said that the angel who fed him will bless Joseph's sons. He knew that God sent angel to provide him yet he doesn't say that there is an angel god. He knows that God sends through angels. 

• Elijah was at the brook. God sent birds
• Elijah was in the wilderness. God sent an angel
• Elijah was in Zarepath. God sent a widow

Wherever you are, God sends some one to provide you. It seems that Elijah never worries about food. He did not say that birds provided, angel provided or a widow provided. 

When Elijah was at the brook, the brook was dried up after a while. God allows it that the brook may not become his god. In India, some of our brothers worship rivers. Some people say that they are independent. What they do mean is that they don't depend on any one but upon God. But i want to tell them that if they depend on God, they are not independent but dependent. Its actually a blessing. 


Its not only about the food. Its about your every need. God is the provider, wherever you are.