Daily Discipleship Guide for 21-APR-2010

The hunger for more is not a twentieth – or twenty-first – century phenomenon.  It’s as old as the Garden of Eden.  Unfortunately, God’s people have been anything but immune to this appetite.

Psalm 106 reviews Israel’s history during the days of the Exodus from Egypt.  How does the theme of wanting more come through in this passage?

What were the results?

When the hunger for more happens in your life, what form does it usually take?  In what areas are you most vulnerable?

(House?  Car?  Recreation?  Clothing?)

Read Jesus’ words in Matthew 6:19-24, and then paraphrase them below.

Do you really think it’s impossible to serve two masters?  Why?

In what ways have you tried to do so?  Be specific.

Suppose you decided today to stop wanting more and to forever cease the tendency to serve money and possessions.  What would you do to achieve that resolution?

Please close this session with the following prayer.

Bless to me O God, my soul that comes from on high.
Bless to me O God, my body that is of earth.
Bless to me O God, each thing my eye sees.
Each Sunday my ears hear.
Bless to me O God, each scent that gives to my nostrils,
Each taste that goes to my lips,
Each ray that guides my way.

- Celtic Prayers from Iona

*Study taken from Giving