The phrase Breaking the Bank is an idiom meaning to spend more than one normally would, even if we have to tap our reserves.
It means drawing down our retirement fund to put our daughter through college. Or shifting money from our vacation account to upgrade our new car to a convertible. Or choosing not to eat out so we can increase our check to the church’s building fund.
Oh, that last one hurt. Who cares about the building fund, when we’ve got Red Lobster in our sights? What has the building fund ever done for us?
That’s pretty much the dollar coin in the tiny piggy bank. How did it get in there, and how do we get it out? Maybe it’s time to smash some crockery to get at our answers.
We read of Mary of Bethany in Matthew 26:7.
“There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and [she] poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.”
That sounds generous, but it was much more. Mary broke the bank. That was her retirement fund, all of it. Mark tells us it was worth about one year’s wages.
How much is that for us? $15,000? $60,000? $1 million?
The value of Mary’s box was relative to her. In her world, it was everything. That’s what she was willing to give to Jesus.
It doesn’t matter if we give him the balance of our investment accounts, our two weeks of vacation each year, or the first five minutes of each day. How important is that gift to us? Does it break our bank, causing us to pull from our reserves, because it’s more than we’d normally give in that particular situation?
Are we willing to break the bank for our Lord?
It’s not how much God demands from us, it’s how much it hurts that tells our true devotion to him.
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