Do What You Can Do

            It was high praise which Jesus gave to the woman who broke a jar of precious perfume to anoint Him.  He said, “She hath done what she could.”  It may not seem at first glance a great thing to praise.  It may seem an ordinary thing to do what one can.  But that is very often the very thing people will not do.  They think of what they would do if things were different, if they had a million dollars, or a place of great power.  But such reveries count for nothing.  What does count is what you can do, not the million dollars we do not have, but the ten dollars we do have, the influence we can exert with what we have.

            May we bring to thy service, O God, the offering of continued faithfulness, doing what we can. In Jesus’ name, Amen

--Unknown