(Time continues to pass at an ever increasing rate these days!)
Next Sunday is our annual Harvest Day and there will be a special speaker for the morning. The following Sunday I will be in Ghana, God willing.
Assuming my flights are all on time, I should be back in the pulpit on the 24th.
And I already know what direction that sermon will take.
The typical Thanksgiving sermon is on gratitude and contentment, but I plan to invert that and focus on things we should be greedy for.
This thought occurred to me in connection with a passage I touched on this morning in 1 Corinthians 14 where Paul tells his audience of believers to eagerly desire spiritual gifts.
And generally speaking, when it comes to anything we can get our hands on to further our spirits, we are never to grow content in this lifetime. We are to want more, more, more.
Like a greedy kid at Christmas.
When greed is pointed at having more of the comforts of heaven in the here and now, it is destructive.
But when greed is pointed at having more of the God of heaven in the here and now, it is endlessly constructive.
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
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