There is another widow we read of, who gave all her living to God! The account is in 1 Kings xvii. God sent the prophet Elijah to her in a time of famine. When he got to where the widow lived, he found her gathering a few sticks to make a fire to bake the last bit of bread that she had!
So Elijah called to her to fetch him a little water. He was nearly dying of thirst, and as she ran to fetch it, he begged her also to bring him a morsel of bread too.
But she told him that she only had a tiny bit of meal left in the barrel, and a little oil in a cruse, and this she was going to make into a little cake for her and her son, and when they had eaten that, she said, they must die!
But Elijah said some words like these to her: "Fear not . . . make me a little cake first, and bring it to me . . . for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, You shall always find a little meal in the barrel, and a little oil in the cruse as long as the famine lasts!"
And she believed God's promise, and went and did as Elijah had said; and she and Elijah and her son had enough to eat for many days.
[XV. "Do this in Remembrance of Me"]
Very soon after this, just before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that the hour had come that He was to die, and to go back to His Father, He wished to do one last act of love to His disciples, because "He loved them to the uttermost."
And supper being ended, Jesus rose up and taking a towel He poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of His disciples.
This astonished them very much, and when it came to Peter's turn, he said, "Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?"
Then Jesus said to him something like this, "You cannot understand what I am doing now, Peter, but you shall understand by and by."