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Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Devotional: June 18th

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Luke 20:41-47; ; Luke 21:1-9

Coming into contact with rich and poor, educated and uneducated, flatterers and quarrelsome, the Lord Jesus in His perfect wisdom discerns the motives and feelings of all and adopts towards each the attitude suitable to their particular condition. He denounces the vanity and the greed of the rulers of the people and He warns those who could be deceived by them to be on their guard. By contrast, He is pleased to draw attention to the devotion of one of the poor widows who were victims of the scribes’ money-grabbing. By putting her last penny into the treasury she was casting herself entirely upon God, showing that she no longer depended on any but Himself alone (1 Timothy 5:5; cf. 2 Corinthians 8:1-5). The Lord has less regard for what each one gives than for what each one keeps for himself.

He does not have the same way of reckoning as we do (v. 3) and this is an encouragement for all those who cannot give much (2 Corinthians 8:12). How many mites will become fortunes in the treasure laid up in heaven! (cf. Luke 12:33; Luke 18:22).

Some are dazzled by the beautiful stones and ornaments of the temple. But here also the Lord Jesus judges differently. He knows the inside of the temple and compares it to a den of thieves (Luke 19:46). Then He declares what would be the fate of those things that men regard and admire (v. 6).

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