There may be some question about their sanity, but there can be no question about whom they love and how much they love Him. Love graduates a person from the secondary level of honest managership to the higher level of sacrificial love giving. While watching a television interview with Mother Theresa, I, along with the young woman interviewing her, swelled with pride as Mother Theresa told us how wonderful Americans are. You are such generous people. The young woman's eyes grew large, astonished.
Love is proved by the sacrifice it makes.
I call this the graduate level of giving because this gift of faith is not given to all equally. But in another sense, faith is essential for any level of giving. Without faith it is impossible to please him. The Pharisees were not the only ones who had problems with Jesus' radical teaching about managership and sacrificial living. The disciples did too.