What You Can

Shortly before Jesus would be going to the cross, he was at a supper when a woman came in and poured out a jar of very expensive perfume on his head to anoint him.  While some of the disciples were indignant that she would waste something so expensive when it could have been sold for more than a year's wages and given to the poor.

Jesus told them to leave her alone for, "She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial (Mk 14:8).  This very similar to what he said earlier about the widow who conversely gave a very small amount of money at the temple equaling only pennies:

"Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything---all she had to live on" (12:43-44).

One's gift was of great value, the other's was of very little but he praised them both for their gifts because they did what they could.  Much or little was not the point, but that they did what they could was everything.  Jesus went so far as to say of the woman who poured out the perfume:

"Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her" (Mk 14:9).

The deal is that it matters little what you offer or do for the Lord but rather that whatever you can do from the heart to honor him that you do that.  Do not worry if it is enough as long as it is what you can offer: "For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have" (2 Cor 8:12).  Jus' Say'n.