Finding Significance

I had a dream long ago, so weird, I had to remember it.  I was seated at a table and everyone was bragging upon their heritage/ancestry.  It bored me beyond belief!  If you want to impress me, tell me what you have done - not what your family did in history!  And heraldry holds no weight with me, I know my linage, I know my title ...

I ask the lady seated next to me to pass something.  She turns and stuffily asks, "Who do you think you are?"

Through my mind quickly flitted across the proper answer options.  Do I brag about my title or the lineage to five royal houses?  I was really irritated by this woman and completely unsure which was the more impressive to shut her up.

Then it all jelled in my mind and I understood that I had to be no one other than a son of the King!

Yeah, I gave up on my ancestry research other than to just produce a book for grandmother's family members.  But, that is another story!

In Jesus day, status and position before others was important - just as it is with some today.  The clothing, the jewels, being at the right place at the right time to be seen.  Speaking in lofty terms so as to appear close to God.  And God does not respect any of that ...

Mark 12:38-44

No One May Notice You Except God
Consider 2 Chronicles 16:9 and Proverbs 15:3
God watches, He sees, He knows.
God will support you and you needs
If you live your life for God, if anyone notices, it will usually be to criticize you!

It Is About Your Heart
Jesus points to the small coins given by the widow, and praises her.
Widows were to be supported by the Temple, not the other way around!
Our giving today is diseased!
We do not give in Love nor Joy! (I hope you are the exception!)

God is looking at your heart, not your checkbook balance!

Expect Nothing Here
This was a teaching moment for the Disciples
- There is no fanfare here for the faithful
- No one may encourage you
- God however remembers and will reward!

And that last point is the real point!  God will reward you - good or bad,  your choice, your life, outside of having an eternal security eternity - you will get what you got coming to you!  Are you willing to be quietly used by God, even in your foul ups?  Are you willing to receive no credit for anything?  Are you willing to be attacked for your faith?  To lose family and friends?

Doing God's will does not come without a price - but you have to know really well God's quiet voice in order to discover that will.

Please close your ears to the pagan church of the world today!  Read your Bible, pray, and if you must talk to others, listen to those whom disagree with the pagan church ...  You live in an apostate age, which will do its best to hamper your discovery of the real God, to stop you from doing what you are supposed to do.  After-all, God's wisdom is foolishness to man.  So, if it makes sense to you, you are probably listening to a lie ....