In the worship service last
Sunday, Theodore H. Epp, founder and director of the Back to the Bible
Broadcast, was enshrined into the Christian Hall of Fame. This was an especially meaningful time for
me, since I served with this international Christian radio ministry for 34
years. Many memories came flooding back.
Since Back to the Bible has
always been a faith ministry, bills and salaries could only be met as listeners
felt led to give.
So there were times in those early days when pay checks could not be
issued on time. But no one really
suffered from the delay, and no one complained.
How could we? We remembered the letter that a widow from
Kansas had sent. She had been blessed by
the ministry and wanted to have a share in the work. There, scotched-taped to her letter were two
dimes. We were deeply touched by her
sacrificial gift. “She had done what she
could.”
In Luke 21:1, 2, we read that
rich people came and deposited their large gifts into the temple treasure. At the same time a widow dropped in a couple
of coins. Jesus told the group that her
offering was greater than that of the rich, as “She had done what she could.”
Another passage (Mark 14:3-8),
tells about a woman with some expensive ointment, pouring it on the head of
Jesus as a love offering. People who saw
it said it was a waste, but Jesus said, “She had done what she could.”
The widow from Kansas “had done
what she could.” The widow in Luke 21
“had done what she could,” and the woman in Mark 14, with the alabaster box of
ointment, “had done what she could.”
How about us—you and me? Can it be said that we too have done what we
could?
