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Luke 21:1-4  You can read the passage here: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2021%3A%201-4&version=NIV

As Jesus looks around the temple at wealthy worshippers parading their sacrifices into the treasury, his gaze falls on a very different picture. Honestly, these four verses feel like a deep, slow inhale.  We’ve been surrounded by escalating chaos and hostility but then, like a lone forget-me-not growing out of a crack on a busy freeway, a widowed woman quietly, humbly exemplifies true worship.  She comes to the house of her God and gives him all she has.  I don’t think it’s inaccurate or inappropriate to suggest, she momentarily derails Jesus in a way he eagerly welcomes.  Jesus has been deliberately escalating the tension all around him, but when he sees this woman, he has to stop everything for a moment.  He notices her.  He makes sure others notice her. He gives her honour.  In so doing he demonstrates the heart of God towards those who are sacrificially generous.  A generous heart is a precious thing to God.  It is something of which he takes notice.  Our God is not impoverished.  He doesn’t need our wealth.  When we give of our resources whether time or money or some talent he asks us to use for his glory, he regards the heart in which it is given, not the size of the gift.  There are some wonderful, generous, godly people who have given very large gifts for the sake of honouring God.  That pleases him.  But he can be equally honoured by a cup of coffee given in his name.  It’s not the gift that pleases him, it’s the heart with which it is given.  

Within days of this account God would give the most precious gift ever offered.  He would sacrificially give the world the thing he loved more than any other, his son.  God could appreciate the value of a gift that cost its giver everything.