A man named Richard was homeless.
He would stand on the side of the road
and he would hold a sign that said,
"Laid off too long.
Anything helps."
One day, as he was standing on the side of the road,
a woman named Kenyatta noticed the sign and walked up to Richard and said,
"Richard, what do you need?"
He said, "Well, really I would just love some,
enough money to be able to turn my cell phone back on
so that when I applied for jobs,
the companies, when they would call my number, I would be able to answer them."
And she said, "I can do that."
So Kenyatta took Richard down to the AT&T store.
They pulled up his account
and she paid his bill
for the next two months.
And then he went home and he charged his cell phone,
which the battery had been dead for a while.
And when he, when his cell phone was charged,
he saw that he had a message.
And he listened to the message
and it was a job offer
from one of the places that he had applied to many weeks earlier.
Even though, and even though the message was a couple of weeks old,
he called them and they still gave him the job.
It was a pretty good day for Richard
and he felt very blessed.
And, of course, the message that caused that to happen,
it had really been there the whole time.
He just needed someone to help him find it.
We find the same kind of thing in Luke chapter 16.
The one thing that the rich man knew that he needed,
and the one thing that the rich man,
the rich man's brothers needed,
it was really there
the whole time
Abraham said this to him in verse 29.
He replied, once the rich man was concerned about his brothers,
He said, no, Lazarus basically, he doesn't need to go and visit them,
because your brothers, they have Moses and the prophets.
Let them listen to them.
They have Moses and the prophets.
And he's talking about the Word.
They have the Word.
And saying they just need to turn to the Word
because in the Word,
that's where you find a Jesus who knows
that this world simply cannot give you every good thing
for which your heart is hoping.
But he can.
And Lazarus believed that he would.
That's why there's one thing in this whole section that you never hear Lazarus do.
You never hear him complain.
And the reason why is because he believed he didn't need to.
This man, whose life was almost completely void of health,
and wealth, and even friends,
believed that his Lord had already given him the one thing
that he needed and the one thing
that this world could never take away.
Comfort
in a heaven where there is no more death,
or crying, or pain,
and where every last tear is wiped away.
You just had to wade through a little bit of pain and loneliness to see it.
And maybe you do too.
But in those moments, you still have everything you need.
You have Moses and the prophets,
where you will always find
your Jesus.
Thank you for allowing me to spend some time with you around the Word of God this week.
I've thoroughly enjoyed it
and I hope that you found some comfort
from the section of God's Word.
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God bless your weekend.
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