![]() Doing daily devotions re-patterns the way we think and transforms the spirit of the mind. Tell about a time when God met your needs and helped you.As we read God’s words, we begin to see how God responds to things. If so, what was the hardest thing about it?ģ. Have you ever been in need of any sort during your life?Ģ. Please use them to bring me close to You. Let Me give you the everlasting life I won when I rose from the dead. Let Me make you new and clean in My kingdom. When He suffered and died on our behalf, even His clothes were taken from Him. He was a refugee as a child in Egypt, and was homeless as an adult. He was born in a family that couldn't provide Him any better cradle than an animal's feeding trough. If you are in need of any kind, this is the God you have: One who understands your heart completely, because He Himself has been needy. ![]() He can turn even our poverty and weakness to good, so that we cling to Him with all our heart. We know this not just from the Bible but also from our own lived experience. Even when we must wait, or when He says No, He has compassion on us and works for our ultimate good. He helps us when we are in trouble, and gives us what we need. That now, I say, upon which you set your heart and put your trust is properly your god."Īnd the Lord answers us! He sees that we need Him. If your faith and trust be right, then is your god also true and, on the other hand, if your trust be false and wrong, then you have not the true God for these two belong together, faith and God. As Luther puts it in the Large Catechism, "A god means that from which we are to expect all good and to which we are to take refuge in all distress. We cry out to Him for what we need, whether it is food and clothing for the body, or forgiveness and life for the soul. ![]() Being poor and needy has one positive side to it: You realize that you need help, help from someone outside yourself.Īnd we find that help in Jesus our Savior. Worse, they are tempted to replace the real God with an idol of their own making-whether that is wealth, power, prestige, a family business, or some other false god. There is one problem that rich people have that the poor do not-they are very likely to overlook their own need for God. Why should it be so hard for a rich person to get into God's kingdom? They can buy their way out of moral problems that the rest of us are stuck with-like the choice to obey a boss who wants us to do something shady, or else lose our jobs. ![]() They can spend all the time they want on worship and Bible study. After all, rich people have a lot of advantages. Jesus surprised His disciples when He said it was hard for rich people to get to heaven. But Jesus said to them again, "Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to Him, "Then who can be saved?" Jesus looked at them and said, "With man it is impossible, but not with God. Mark 10:23-27 - And Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!" And the disciples were amazed at His words. ![]()
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