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ugen marty haugen s setting of psalm 23 music musical settings of psalm 23 psalm 23 shepherd me o god singing worship more than 1 billion hungry june 20 2009 1 comment more than 1 billion don t have enough food to eat according to a cbc news report united nations food agency says a record 1 02 billion people are hungry around the world largely due to the global economic crisis and stubbornly high food prices read more about it here what can we do give generously to benevolent ngos like canadian lutheran world relief who work on the front lines to improve the quality of life in the two thirds world with community based projects pray for daily bread for the now over 1 billion starving people in our world note in lutheran tradition following martin luther himself daily bread is an all inclusive phrase in the lord s prayer and refers to food clothing shelter health care education good government and a peaceful just society work or volunteer for an ngo that compliments your faith and or worldview speak with your political representatives and encourage the government to increase their benevolent giving to the two thirds nations without strings attached make connections with people from the two thirds world learn from them become a neighbour befriend them i m sure there are a host of other activities that you kind reader with all of your creativity can add on to my brief list here and pursue filed under wonderings tagged with benevolence canadian lutheran world relief church ngos development justice ngos peace poverty the two thirds world world hunger sermon 2 pentecost yr b june 12 2009 2 comments 2 pentecost yr b 14 06 2009 i sam 15 34 16 13 2 cor 5 6 10 14 17 rev garth wehrfritz hanson pastor of grace lutheran church chaplain of the good samaritan society s south ridge village medicine hat alberta the lord looks on the heart we re all familiar with the old adages appearances can be deceiving never judge a book by its cover looks are only skin deep i m sure that most if not all of you here today have experienced either negatively or positively the truth of these adages which are rooted in the bible here s a contemporary story that underscores these adages mr swiller was known far and wide as a hard nosed boss who watched his employees like a hawk he was making one of his regular tours of the factory when he spotted a young man leaning against a pile of boxes just outside the foreman s office since george the foreman wasn t around swiller stood off to the side and watched to see just how long the young man would stand around doing nothing the young man yawned scratched his head looked at his watch and sat on the floor he took out a nail file and began cleaning his nails then he stretched yawned again and leaned back on the pile of boxes swiller stepped from his hiding place and walked up to the young man you he boomed how much do you make a week the young man looked up indifferently two hundred and fifty dollars he said swiller swooped into the cashier s office took 250 from the cash box and returned take it he said and get out don t let me see you around here again the young man took the cash put it in his pocket and left swiller snorted at his lack of remorse embarrassment or any other feeling then he went looking for george when he found him swiller was red with anger that idler in front of your office swiller said i just gave him a week s pay and fired him what s the matter with you letting him stand around as though he had nothing to do you mean the kid in the red shirt george asked yes the kid in the red shirt he was waiting for the twenty dollars we owe him for lunch george said he works for the coffee shop around the corner 1 appearances are deceiving never judge a book by its cover looks are only skin deep in both our first and second lessons today these adages are affirmed the anointing of david as king by the prophet samuel is full of political intrigue and surprise samuel regretting having anointed saul as king goes to bethlehem under the divine decoy plan of offering a sacrifice his real reason for going there is to carry out god s directive to anoint a son of jesse whom god shall show samuel we are surprised to learn that the most obvious sons are turned down why well there are at least two reasons the stated reason comes from the voice of the lord to samuel in verse seven do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature because i have rejected him for the lord does not see as mortals see they look on the outward appearance but the lord looks on the heart then after all jesse s sons present are rejected the youngest son is fetched and samuel is told by god to rise and anoint him for this is the one god s omniscience his all knowing capacity to see into the heart the true essence and character of a person causes him to choose david as king likely much to the shock and surprise of everyone else the second reason that the other sons are turned down is more implicit in this story however to understand the second reason we need to remember an important biblical principle that martin luther and other interpreters of the bible have found most helpful the principle is scripture interprets scripture what we mean by that is there are certain themes written large repeatedly in the bible and it is helpful for us to read the bible in its larger context to help us discover deeper meanings in this passage of i samuel we have the theme of god choosing the youngest son now that theme runs throughout the bible remember for example that god chose younger abel s sacrifice instead of cain s god favoured isaac over ishmael jacob over esau joseph over his older brothers in the new testament god seems to favour the youngest prodigal son over the eldest son so in today s first lesson that theme appears again god favours and blesses the least likely those who are excluded by the majority because they are considered too young for the job at hand as jesus also said the last shall be first and the first last our second lesson also connects us in a similar way as this story of god choosing david the apostle paul is speaking about his longing to leave this life and be with christ in heaven the key to understanding what paul is saying here is found in verse seven where he says for we walk by faith not by sight we quite often say yes i ve heard of that person but i don t know him by sight or i ve spoken to her on the phone but i don t know her by sight our knowledge of god is similarly not by sight our knowledge of jesus is not by sight we do of course know so much of jesus both historically through the gospels and in the present by his spirit that seeing him marvellous though it would be would simply confirm what we already know nevertheless seeing is what we long for and the promise of it gives us confidence as paul repeats in verse 8 2 walking by faith not by sight is an act of trust as the following story attests oh great al was not excited about being at this workshop on team building but his boss was on a big kick about it and al needed at least to look cooperative but know the workshop leader was asking people to pair up for a trust walk to be blindfolded and led by voice through whatever obstacles were ahead al hated that he had always been afraid of the dark something he carefully hid from others because it embarrassed him he didn t know why darkness was so frightening to him but he did know that he did put stock in anything he could see if it were a concept a promise an idea a dream forget it give him something tangible something concrete and he could deal with it give him something he could control and he was fine but now this al didn t even really know the partner who was to lead him around his nametag said larry but that told him nothing the workshop leader gave instructions i want you to walk by trust not by sight she said let your partner guide you using only the voice and get a sense of letting go of your own control so that you may be responsive to someone outside of you there is that word again al thought control it is mine why should i give it up i m comfortable with it why should someone else get to take it away from me larry handed al his blindfold and said let s get started they exchanged some small talk but al was not listening he was hearing his head instead telling him just to get it over with that it shouldn t be this hard that people do this all the time then he was hearing his gut tell him otherwise don t do it it was telling him you take charge al stalled but larry was persistent give up he smiled so al reluctantly placed the blindfold over his eyes all right i give up he said to himself the voice began to lead him but al suddenly realized it was not larry s voice and it was not the voice of the workshop leader follow me the voice was saying give me control of your steps and i will show you the way trust me as you walk i will guide you don t you see that maybe al did see something when the blindfold went on maybe he did see that it is possible to see by faith what is not seen by the eyes maybe the voice assured him that these steps would be the first steps out of the darkness of his fear trust me larry said al sighed i ll try he replied larry smiled and said it s a step in the right direction 3 the lord looks on the heart we walk by faith not by sight let us pray jesus we struggle with many fears we bring them to you and in return we ask you to help us place all of our trust in you in your holy name amen 1 i do not have the source of this story however it came my way via e mail a few years ago 2 n t wright reflecting the glory meditations for living christ s life in the world minneapolis augsburg books 1998 p 44 3 paul lintern believing is seeing in 56 lectionary stories for preaching based upon the revised common lectionary cycle b lima oh css publishing co inc 1993 pp 73 74 filed under sermons tagged with ecumenical sermons homilies lutheran sermons rcl homilies rcl 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