Chapel message 092910
Vicar Darren Harbaugh
Money Hungry? God fills the hungry with good things.
Have you ever heard your stomach growl because you were hungry? Why does your stomach growl? [because you need food]
Sometimes we just crave food. Does anybody here have a favorite food that they want all the time? I always want pizza, sometimes I just think about it and I get hungry. Like right now.
There is another kind of hungry. Money hungry. It is a craving, like food.
Has their ever been something you really, really wanted and you just had to have it; you couldn’t live without it? When I was your age: it was a Video game system, now it’s the iphone.
Some people are so hungry for things and $money$, that they walk away from God. $money$ and things become so important that they are all you can think about. Things become more important to us than God sometimes.
God loves us gives us all that we need. He gives us these gifts and we can be content and thankful for what he provides. The Bible says that God “fills the hungry with good things.” God gives us not just food, but everything we need.
We confess that God gives us all we need every time we say the Lord’s Prayer. In what part of the Lord’s Prayer do we confess that God provides our needs, like food? [God gives us Our daily bread.] When we are hungry, God feeds us, but he gives us more than just food in our “daily bread”
Read together "What is our Daily Bread" in Small Catechism– AGPS 42 or LSB 324
What is one of the gifts that Our Father who art in heaven gives us? [food, clothing, etc]
But the best gift that God has given us is his Son Jesus. Jesus died on the cross for you. He gives you the free gift of forgiveness of sins and eternal life. He continues to satisfy our hungry souls as he feeds us with His Body and Blood in the Lord’s Supper. And he will raise our bodies to be with Him.
Don’t be money-hungry. God gives us good gifts, let’s take hold of them and be content, giving thanks to Him.
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