What Do We Want

INTRO

Hello, today we’re going to be looking at the theme of what do we want. I’m sure that you’ve been asked what you would like for your birthday or for Christmas or even when you go to a shop. Can anyone tell me some of the things they have asked for?

DEVELOPMENT

There are lots of things that we often want or think we want, Every week lots of people think it’s a good idea to play the lottery even though there is very little chance of winning anything. The reason they play is because they want to win the top prize of millions of pounds. Did you know that the chances of winning the lottery are 1 in 13,983,816 that means that if you play the lottery 13,983,816 times you are only likely to win once. Even to win the smallest prize of £10 there is only a 1 in 57 chance of winning. So on average if you spend £57 on lottery tickets you’re only going to win £10 a loss of £47. So if the chances of winning are so low why do so many people play it. It’s cos they think if they win all that money they will get to be happy.

We’re going to show you a movie clip now about a person who thinks he is happy on his own with everything that he has, see if you know what really will make him happy.

SHREK MOVIE CLIP

In that movie Shrek thinks that to be happy he has everything he needs, he just wants to be left alone, but I’m sure all of you have seen the rest of the movie and that Shrek actually enjoys having donkey and eventually Fiona as friends. Later in the film Shrek goes back to his old way and tries to keep everything for himself but when he shares everything he has with Fiona he’s really happy for the first time in his life.

In the Bible there is a story about a man who is really rich, he has everything he could ever want he has all the latest DVD’s and the biggest plasma TV you can get, he’s got all the sports cars and the huge house. But he is never really happy. So he goes to Jesus and asks how he can be really happy and go to heaven, Jesus told the man that all of his possessions and his love for them were getting in the way and that to be really happy he needed to get rid of them. He needed to share what he had to be happy.

Quiet Time

Maybe you would like to think about how you can share the things you have and about how that might make you a happier person.

Dear Lord thank you that you share with us what you have and that we can share in friendship with you. Help us to share the things we have a find a way to be truly happy. Amen.