Max.

He's barely seven years old, in the first grade, and probably has a stronger relationship with the Lord than I do most of the time. Little Max has become one of my new favorite people in the world. His spiritual maturity and selflessness at such a young age is an incredible inspiration to me.This morning as we kicked off day two of the 30 Hour Famine, Max and I shared the story of the five dollars he gave me. The only five dollars that I rose this year (well, I had $10 by the end of the talk but I get into that later). 

Max's mom does bible study with my mom on Tuesdays and my mom is his sister Carly's preschool teacher on Thursday, but I'd never actually met Max until this morning, heard lots of stories about this awesome little guy, but never met him. My mom handed me a five dollar bill on Thursday night saying "Here, this is yours." I was stoked. Free cash?! yes please! But then she added the caviot: this was for the famine. This was Max's Valentine's Day money and after hearing about the famine he decided that feeding hungry kids is what he wanted to do with it. This wasn't just a small part of his money, it was ALL of his money. When I was seven, I looked forward to the random holidays where I received a small amount of cash in a themed card and stash it away in my piggy bank no matter how hard my mom tried to get me to do something nice for someone else with it. Even now a days I would probably keep it. One thing that Max said this morning that really stood out to me: "I figured that if Jesus could die on the cross I could give five dollars." WOW. The severity of those words are so heightened when coming from the mouth of a first grader. Towards the end of our talk sweet little Carly walked up to the stage and handed me the five dollars of one of the parents in the audience. It is such a blessing getting to tangibly see how the Lord worked through Max and I and touched those who heard what we were saying. Max is a real world example of the women and the two coins (Luke 21:1-4). He gave all that he had to help the Lord's kingdom and had no doubt that five dollars wasn't enough to make any real difference.

I had a bunch of people come up to me later that day and tell me little Max brought a tear to their eye, for good reason! I am so amazed by how this little guy has been touched by the Lord and is so willing to share his love for Christ with those around him. I aspire to have the same kind of admiration and confidence for the Lord that Max does. Thanks Max (:

xoxo,
Abby just Abby

P.S. I started this post yesterday and finished it today...and too lazy to change "this morning" to "yesterday morning" so sorry if thats confusing and doesn't make sense.