8/1/21 - 10th Sunday after Pentecost - Faith Responds by Helping Those in Need- 2 Corinthians 9:8-11

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The Pentecost Season
The Sundays after Pentecost focus on how Christians live in response to all that God has done for us. This part of the Church Year focuses on the response of faith.

This Sunday
The readings for this Sunday move us to this response, that we strive to imitate Christ by seeing ourselves as his agents in helping one another in their time of need.
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First Lesson: 2 Kings 4:42-44
God is so generous that sometimes he has even preserved his people miraculously. But notice that even then he used the efforts and gifts of people to show their eagerness to help as well as his eagerness to bless.

Second Lesson: 2 Corinthians 9:8-11
God is generous to you so that he might be generous through you. Who will thank God today for his gifts through you? Everyone gets rich in this scheme of things; and God enjoys the rich thanksgiving of his people, who thank him for his gifts to them and the opportunities he gives for other people to benefit from his gifts through them.

Gospel: John 6:1-15
Jesus creates a need so that he can satisfy it. It did not just suddenly occur to him that the thousands would be in danger since they had stayed with him so long. No, he let them stay until there was a problem. And then he solved the problem. He does that wondrous thing in our lives countless times. But often in rescuing he gives his disciples an opportunity to help him by serving those who were now in such obvious need. The boy shares. The great apostles become traffic cops and then waiters and then clean up men. And when it is all over Jesus makes sure that what he has done will not get in the way of his march to the cross! What are your opportunities to serve? What do you do with them? There is not a day on which we cannot pray for those in need and then ourselves become the Lord’s agents through whom he at least in part answers our prayers. Do you have the fish and the bread? Can you help serve it if another has it to share?

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