And we all had something growing up that we really wanted as a kid, right? For me, I had literally one thing that I really hoped that at some point my parents would surprise me with,

but there is a little bit of lingering disappointment. Maybe resentment is too strong a word that they never found a way to pull together the money to buy me a

Lamborghini Kuntash.

I think that's a reasonable request, especially when you don't understand how money works.

My suggestion to them was write a check. Still don't have one. But it was something that among other things as well, I deeply longed for and there was certainly a period in my life like maybe when I was in like fourth or fifth grade

where I would lay awake at night and be like if I had three wishes what would I use them on and one of them was always on a Lamborghini

Kuntosh because have you seen those? I actually watched the video the other day

about somebody who went back and just bought one like last year. The thing looks like a nightmare to drive.

So it's for the best for everyone that I didn't get the Lamborghini Kuntash. Here's the point. There are tons of things in life that we deeply long for in which and for which we never receive satisfaction.

I'm never getting that car.

It's best for me never to get that car.

But there's also stuff that we rightly want that we never get satisfaction on.

Stuff that it's reasonable to long for, maybe emotionally, maybe socially,

maybe in terms of get to do something or contribute something, it just never comes together. And that can

be a tough story. And at least in my country, I would say in the

fancy Western world, not like the wild west of West, but like Western civilization west.

west.

It's not very desirable in culture to go hungry,

to go longing for something, to deeply yearn for something, and then to see that dream or that ambition not be fulfilled.

So it's kind of an upside down value once again when we get to Matthew chapter 5,

the beginning of this sermon on the mount, this kingdom manifesto, where

Jesus has given his first big public speech and he is shooting the moon here, laying out the

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