I've been reading through a chapter a day of the Corinthians and read 2 Corinthians 8 today... Paul tells the Corinthians about the Macedonian church who gives financially despite their extreme poverty and are able to give even beyond their ability...! "They urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the Lord's people." It was not about oh, there's this need we have to fill because we're obligated, but they wanted the privilege of partnering with God's ministry in this way. It also reminds me of the story that Francis Chan's wife shared about how when they went to Asia to visit the poor and they would take the amount of rice they normally ate and cut it in half, and put the other half in a bag/container and donated that each week to the church in order to provide for other families who didn't have food to eat O.O
And the most mind-blowing verse of this entire passage--"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich." The implications are huge for us as Christians/Christ-followers/mini-Christs, aren't they...... O.O
