Wednesday, January 31, 2018

DENNIS Good Morning. I am Dennis Gossett for Central United Methodist Church, and I hope that your NFL team is going to the Super Bowl. Many of you will put in a lot of time and effort planning your Super Bowl parties, in hopes that your team wins. If not, well it can be very discouraging can’t it? But isn’t that a lot like life! No matter how long and hard we plan, we can still walk away feeling unsatisfied. Jesus gives a sermon on top of a mountain that may give us a hint as to why discouragement creeps into our lives. In just 12 verses, he tells the crowd where their priorities must be. Jesus is calling us to reorient our lives to a way of living that is preparing us for the Kingdom of God and away from the kingdom of this world. He tells us to be “poor in spirit, meek, seek after righteousness, be merciful, pure in heart, and be a peacemaker.” Things such as these prepare a soul for a place where eternity dwells. All other things are shallow and empty in comparison. Just like the upcoming Super Bowl, life will be over too soon. I invite you to come and visit us at Central for encouragement on your journey to the Kingdom that is not of this world.