Contemporary Bible Reading

A great contemporary bible reading for this Sunday written by Roddy Hamilton whose blog you can read here

Some upbeat chart music is playing in the background...

Voice 1 Ladies and Gentlemen… welcome to this years GQ Magazine best and worst dressed awards 2008… where at No. 16 we have future king… Prince William… that No. 16 on the worst dressed chart… Not so good for the next in line but other British Princes made a better attempt in the best dressed list… where Harry… Charles and Philip… all feature in the top 50 of this years chart…

Voice 2 Has anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever got taller by so much as an inch? All this time and money wasted on fashion—do you think it makes that much difference?

Voice 1 As for the women… Kate Moss has been voted top of the pops in glamour clothing… taking back her top place from Kylie Minogue… Experts believe it was that shocking cat-suit Kylie wore on X-factor… that was her undoing… Close to the top of the worst dressed men chart we find Prime Minister Gordon Brown shooting into number three… but opposition leader David Cameron can take comfort in the fact that he didn’t only get to No 1 in the bi-election this week… but he’s also in at number 8 in the best dressed awards… his third consecutive year in the top ten…

Voice 2 Instead of looking at the fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop, but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them.

Voice 1 Back at the women’s chart Madonna… Paris Hilton and Britney Spears all rub shoulders at the top of the worst positions… Interestingly David Beckham has once more figured in both lists of best and worst… being named 6th best and 9th worst dressed male… But who has made it to the top of the best dressed list… For second year running… Daniel Craig… the first blond James Bond… makes it to the top for the men… and for the women it’s Kate Moss… winning back her top place… But how many hours and fussing and dollars of grooming will they both have to take to keep themselves there…?

Voice 2 If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don't you think he'll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I'm trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God's giving.