July 31, 2022 Trinity 7 The Sunday of Feeding the 4,000
Trinity 7
Mark 8:1-9
July 31, 2022
“Jesus Provides Everything”
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Jesus doesn’t just provide some things such as forgiveness, peace, and hope. Jesus provides everything. He provides everything here at Church to you, yes, but He also provides everything at your lunch table today and everything in your home that you go to after Church, and everything anywhere in your life. It’s all from Him.
We have a problem today of separating these things. Separating our faith from the rest of our life. Separating Jesus only into this little spiritual, soul arena. As Nancy Pearcey has described it, we have our Jesus, our faith, in one pocket (for the spiritual stuff) and then we’ve got the rest of our life in the other pocket. And the two hardly ever meet or interchange at all.
But you’re quite mistaken if you think you need Jesus only for the spiritual stuff. In that case, we have a grossly false sense of security. We act like nothing is ever going to happen to us but the reality is that we’re completely vulnerable all the time. How much do you pay a month for all your various insurances—health insurance, auto and home insurance, life insurance, nursing home insurance? You have them because you know everything is vulnerable to attack. Yet no insurance can protect you from this fallen world. Only Jesus can. You cannot protect yourself from hunger, sickness, disaster, food shortages, power outages—you name it. But Jesus is your Protection. He’s your refuge, your fortress, your Rock. He provides everything!
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