Day 19 –
Wednesday
Mark 12:41-44 (verses 38-40 provide additional context)
Generous One, help
us to give with deep gratitude and bold generosity to the work of your realm.
Help us not to give for show, to have others think well of us, to compete for
status, or to get our names attached to monuments to our own generosity.
Enable us to desire
your reign, so deeply, that we are willing and able to risk ourselves, to
invest ourselves to the point of giving up even what we believe we need, and
what we truly need, in order to enhance the witness and service of Christ’s
church and minister in solidarity with the most vulnerable among us.
Enable us to give
gladly, and without being overly self-conscious about what we are doing. Enable
us to give with discernment, so that the resources You have provided continue
the forgiving, healing, liberating, renewing, reconciling work that Jesus did
among us.
Most days we seem
far from it, but enable us to be all in for You. Open our hearts wide! Expand
our vision! Amen.
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