Super Bowl XLV is on Sunday. It cost $6 to go to Super Bowl I back in 1966.
The latest after market ticket price today for Sunday’s game is right around $5,000.00 apiece.
No big deal to God?
A well can be dug for $5,000 in a community that is dying because it can’t get good water over in some African countries.
Think God doesn’t care? You think God doesn’t care how we live our lives and how we use our resources and talents?
Matthew 25:14-30 –
The Parable of the Talents
14 “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them. 15 To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. 16 The man who had received the five talents went at once and put his money to work and gained five more. 17 So also, the one with the two talents gained two more. 18 But the man who had received the one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.
19 “After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them. 20 The man who had received the five talents brought the other five. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’
21 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
22 “The man with the two talents also came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with two talents; see, I have gained two more.’
23 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
24 “Then the man who had received the one talent came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’
26 “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27 Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.
28 “‘Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. 29 For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
If you think he doesn’t, what does God care about?
I’ll tell you what I think He cares about. I think He cares about everything. He cares when someone needs help and someone doesn’t help them. I think He cares about how we either love others or don’t love others. I think He cares about when a community is completely evil and is ready for judgment. I think He cares when they are Godly and He enjoys blessing them.
If he knows the number of hairs on your head, he cares if people are dying and others aren’t trying to help them.
Matthew 10:30 – 30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
He cares if people aren’t finding Him and if His children that do know Him are trying to reach others.
He cares if you have a loving relationship with Him or if you don’t give Him the time of day.
God cares about everything and He cares if you care. Its best if we make it a point to learn God’s Word and get a better idea what He cares about, rather than our own opinions or best guesses.
Isaiah 55:8 – 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.