SOTM 3: Fat and Unhappy

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven."
-Mt. 5:3

Jesus is the champion of the have-nots. In Luke Jesus emphasizes the physically poor, in Matthew the spiritually poor. Though recent economic woes might cause us to identify with Luke's, most of us Americans are the fat and unhappy ones that Matthew's gospel seems to address. How can going through a life that is so easy feel so hard? Jesus has good news for us. What we are really looking for has come. It's just that we don't really have any idea what it is.