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Today's Reading: Matthew 6:24-34
Daily Lectionary: Nehemiah 4:7-23; 1 Timothy 3:1-16
Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? (Matthew 6:26)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. How do you know that God will take care of you? Look at your car windshield. See? He's feeding the birds! They've got food! So He'll take care of you, too. Birds have food. Lilies look like they're dressed beautifully. They are just birds and flowers! You are worth way more to your heavenly Father than those things!
That's because the Son of God didn't become a bird or a lily. He became man. A human being. One of us. Like you. He did that so He could take your sin and death and make them His own to rescue you from those things forever.
If God did not spare His own Son but gave Him up to the death of the Cross, don't you think He'll make sure you have enough to eat and something to wear? Of course He will. In fact, Jesus is the in-the-flesh proof of the Father's promise to do what you need Him to: save you from sin and death but also to give you your daily bread and take care of you in this life.
Our Old Adam likes to take the things that God gives us and turn them into the most important. You have to get more food! Get more clothes! Get more stuff! As if the Lord is going to let you starve or run around naked! We trust so much in our stuff that we forget it is the Lord who gives us the things that we need. There's our repentance: Repent of worry and of trusting in our stuff more than the Lord.
Jesus died for that false and misplaced trust. He died to bring us back from trusting in the stuff to trusting in the One who gives us all that we need. Water. Word. Body. Blood. Food. Clothing. Everlasting life. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
O Lord, we implore You, let Your continual pity cleanse and defend Your Church, and because she cannot continue in safety without Your help, preserve her evermore by Your help and goodness; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. (Collect for the 15th Sunday after Trinity)
Audio Reflections Speaker: Pastor René Castillero
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By Higher Things®Today's Reading: Matthew 6:24-34
Daily Lectionary: Nehemiah 4:7-23; 1 Timothy 3:1-16
Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? (Matthew 6:26)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. How do you know that God will take care of you? Look at your car windshield. See? He's feeding the birds! They've got food! So He'll take care of you, too. Birds have food. Lilies look like they're dressed beautifully. They are just birds and flowers! You are worth way more to your heavenly Father than those things!
That's because the Son of God didn't become a bird or a lily. He became man. A human being. One of us. Like you. He did that so He could take your sin and death and make them His own to rescue you from those things forever.
If God did not spare His own Son but gave Him up to the death of the Cross, don't you think He'll make sure you have enough to eat and something to wear? Of course He will. In fact, Jesus is the in-the-flesh proof of the Father's promise to do what you need Him to: save you from sin and death but also to give you your daily bread and take care of you in this life.
Our Old Adam likes to take the things that God gives us and turn them into the most important. You have to get more food! Get more clothes! Get more stuff! As if the Lord is going to let you starve or run around naked! We trust so much in our stuff that we forget it is the Lord who gives us the things that we need. There's our repentance: Repent of worry and of trusting in our stuff more than the Lord.
Jesus died for that false and misplaced trust. He died to bring us back from trusting in the stuff to trusting in the One who gives us all that we need. Water. Word. Body. Blood. Food. Clothing. Everlasting life. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
O Lord, we implore You, let Your continual pity cleanse and defend Your Church, and because she cannot continue in safety without Your help, preserve her evermore by Your help and goodness; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. (Collect for the 15th Sunday after Trinity)
Audio Reflections Speaker: Pastor René Castillero