"As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. 'I tell you the truth,' he said, 'this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.'"
A lot of Jesus' interactions with people and parables involve money; the rich young man who couldn't give up money, the landowner who is pleased with someone who can double his money, Zacchaeus, and so forth. But from this passage we can tell Jesus really doesn't care about money. What he cares about is the power of money in your life. Jesus hardly cares about the value of money, how much it can buy, but rather the value you have on it. Because we can tell that Jesus does not consider money to be the center of his story we can say that this passage applies to our most valuable asset - money, time, relationships, entertainment, etc. This tells me that we need to give with all we got, no matter how big or small. We gotta give to the extent to where it hurts. For me time is most valuable. I do not like giving my time to other things if its going to hurt me. Even serving in the church I find myself complaining because I don't have time for much anything else. However, I need to learn to give my time as if it were my last like the woman in the story.
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