Prosperity and Faith
by The Rev. Thomas Bonaventure Devlin, MGC
I don’t want to sound like a televangelist at 2 am in the morning when you can’t sleep; but I will.
In Deuteronomy God tells us to “keep and live out the entire commandment that I am commanding you today so that you’ll live and prosper and enter and own the land that God promised to your ancestors.”
The road the Israelites traveled was recalled: 40 years in the desert, pushed to their limits, no water, no food, nothing.
God provided manna, a bread like substance; and also brought forth water from a rock.
The moral of this story is to keep the commandments of God, walk the road God shows you and reverently respect God. God will bring you to a good land, a land with brooks, and rivers, springs and lakes, streams out of the hills and through the valleys. It has wheat and barley, vines and figs, pomegranates, olives, oil and honey. We will never go hungry; food is always on the table and a roof over our head. We will get iron out of the rocks and copper from the hills.
However, after we take in this abundance, don’t forget God. Give God thanks.
Don’t become so full of yourself based on your abundance that God is forgotten. God delivered us from slavery.
In our Gospel, John tells us that Jesus told us, “Whoever believes in me has real life, eternal life. I am the bread of life. Anyone who eats this bread will not die, ever. Anyone who eats this bread will live, and forever. My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.”
On this feast of Corpus Christi, latin for the body of Christ, remember to thank our God at every meal for the food presented and those who prepared it. Also remember, as we receive the Eucharist, that we give thanks to our God for continuing to take care of us as we travel in our desert which we call “life.”
Thank you Jesus, for feeding us.
Amen
by The Rev. Thomas Bonaventure Devlin, MGC
I don’t want to sound like a televangelist at 2 am in the morning when you can’t sleep; but I will.
In Deuteronomy God tells us to “keep and live out the entire commandment that I am commanding you today so that you’ll live and prosper and enter and own the land that God promised to your ancestors.”
The road the Israelites traveled was recalled: 40 years in the desert, pushed to their limits, no water, no food, nothing.
God provided manna, a bread like substance; and also brought forth water from a rock.
The moral of this story is to keep the commandments of God, walk the road God shows you and reverently respect God. God will bring you to a good land, a land with brooks, and rivers, springs and lakes, streams out of the hills and through the valleys. It has wheat and barley, vines and figs, pomegranates, olives, oil and honey. We will never go hungry; food is always on the table and a roof over our head. We will get iron out of the rocks and copper from the hills.
However, after we take in this abundance, don’t forget God. Give God thanks.
Don’t become so full of yourself based on your abundance that God is forgotten. God delivered us from slavery.
In our Gospel, John tells us that Jesus told us, “Whoever believes in me has real life, eternal life. I am the bread of life. Anyone who eats this bread will not die, ever. Anyone who eats this bread will live, and forever. My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.”
On this feast of Corpus Christi, latin for the body of Christ, remember to thank our God at every meal for the food presented and those who prepared it. Also remember, as we receive the Eucharist, that we give thanks to our God for continuing to take care of us as we travel in our desert which we call “life.”
Thank you Jesus, for feeding us.
Amen
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