Rev Masseys Mid-Week Epistole

APPLE CORE LEFTOVERS
What do you give God? Do you give him all your life or do you give Him a hard time? Do you offer Him every opportunity to show through you to the world, or only a brief Sunday Morning “Golden Opportunity”?
Once upon a time, there was a person who had nothing...who received ten apples from God: three apples to eat, three apples to trade for shelter from the sun and rain, three apples to trade for clothing to wear, and one apple to give back to God to show thanks for the other nine.
The person ate three apples -- and traded three for a shelter -- and three for clothing to wear -- then, looked at the tenth apple. It seemed bigger and juicer than the rest.
The tenth apple was meant to be returned to God to show gratitude, but since the apple looked bigger and juicer than the rest, and since it was reasoned that God had all the other apples in the world... the person ate the last apple, leaving only the core for God.
What did he do wrong? He followed the pattern exactly as it was given didn’t he. The problem was that God did not say what order to use the apples in. What would have happened to the man if lovingly he had given the apple back to God first? Perhaps all the apples would have looked bigger and juicer than before. And just perhaps He would have found a new love for God and himself. You see, it is not so much that God cannot live on leftovers, it is the fact that man cannot have it all.

Loving God come this day and receive from our lives, the first of everything. The first of our love, our dreams, our hopes, and even our fears, and let our offerings be for the glory of God and not the leftovers that we might some day have. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Now this is not the end of the story, you have to join me next week for “The Rest of the Story”.
Rev. Jim Massey