Sermon: Glory Over Pleasure ("Comfort Not Guaranteed" series)

Sometimes I think we don't talk enough about the Glory of God and how it moves us to fundamentally see the world differently. The reality is that we live in a remarkably privileged world. Illiteracy was at 79% in the year 1900. Today it is around 13% globally. The average life expectancy from the Neolithic period until 1900 was between 30-40 years of age. Today it is over twice that. One hundred years ago, most of the world population lived in what is classified "extreme poverty". Today that number is down to 8%. We are blessed and refusing to acknowledge it is foolishness. The problem is that our blessings have caused some to become entitled, as if they divined these blessings on their own power. When we realize that nothing is "owed" to us and that we are entitled to nothing, the events of our life start to take on a very different hue.