Suffering from unknown needs..,

Pastor Nate quoted something today that for some reason has my attention.. he said these words "We suffer from the emptiness of ceaseless consumption", which I took to mean, In our lives in this country, we have such excess that we sit and consume ourselves into a state of utter boredom and emptiness.
I was randomly reading some gossip trash to kill time on Tuesday because God knows my little brain tends to wander when presented with a spread sheet to complete, and I read an article that I found interesting. Brad Pitt was recently asked what movie he was growing the scary 6 inch goatee he has been sporting for several months now.. his reply? "none, I am currently not shooting any movies.. I guess I am just growing it out of boredom" I was smacked in the forehead with this quote. So many people in our country have no need for anything and when we have it all, it's very easy to become bored with the mundane issues of our lives. Think about it. If money is no object? bills are paid, cars are repaired, shoes are bought, budgets are met. How many single mom's do you hear complaining about these random issues as they struggle daily just to meet needs??? If we have need of Christ and his daily provision in America, we are so independent that we scoff at the idea. Mostly we attend church because well.. it just looks good for us to be attending.
As I was worshipping today, and I was on time, I took my place in the row and was enraptured in the first praise song when I smacked in the face by a smell that was second only to excrement and body odor. A woman in the row in front of me came in late to the service and apparently she had totally bathed herself in the nastiest scariest perfume Avon produces. As I stood and kept getting hit in the face with that smell, I began to think about being in the crowd as Jesus preached. I thought about the crowd that gathered as he gave the beatitudes, he sat down on a large rock atop a hill and a crowd gathered around him. Some versions of the bible refer to the crowd as a "sea of people or a Multitude".
My question is this.. WHY if Jesus preached the good news, did a Sea of people follow him in those days and in reference to percentages only a handful of people now come to hear the message weekly? I guess it was the woman's perfume that gave me the hint. It reminded me of pure horrific smells such as body odor after someone hasn't bathed in about 5 days. I can only imagine that in the crowd that day as Jesus preached, there were many who couldn't afford the luxury of bathing and trying to stay clean. Most of those people who were gathered were hill country people who herded sheep and labored in the sun daily and staying clean was probably not high on their daily list of priorities. It was this group of people to which Jesus appealed most. Why? because they were the kind of people who needed their daily bread to come from heaven. They were the kind of people that were dependent upon the hand of God to feed them daily or they would starve.
Pastor Nate didn't make the quote today to shame anyone. He simply stated a fact. The people gathered at the feet of Jesus for his wisdom were not bored from ceaseless consumption. Not even in the least, most of them were skin and bones and making a daily wage was all consuming.
When the disciples brought bread to Jesus, he made this quote "My food,is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work." John 4:34
Jesus came to "finish his work" If you go back and read what work he meant? I think it was this. God had ALWAYS spent his time choosing faulty people to represent him. People who were not Kings and Priests etc. for the most part, the people he chose were broken screw ups that would tell other broken hearted screw ups about him because he longed to reveal himself to hurt wounded people because he is a Father who loves, not criticizes his people. He looked upon people who were "helpless and harassed, like sheep without a shepherd". Jesus's ministry was to restore broken people and tell a lost and dying world that he loved them and wanted them to have a great life and worship him. He didn't come preaching about sin and how God didn't like them and God was angry and we had to follow some 12 step program and maybe if God saw fit, he MIGHT forgive them and begin to turn his face back to them and hear their prayers. He came to FINISH HIS WORK. Finish the work of revealing to people that they didn't need to fear God because he simply wasn't mad at them. God only wanted to love them where they were.
Most of the people I saw jogging, or working in their yard, or riding their motorcycles as I drove home from church today have no knowledge of their need to know that God loves them. It could be that some overzealous well meaning Christian told them once that their sin separated them from God, or that they should repent of something or maybe they are turned off by the hypocrisy? who knows. The truth is that we should love unconditionally just as we are loved and given our needs.
I will spend my week looking at my needs, focusing on how much I consume in my diet, and radio, and movies, and wasted time, on nothingness that profits me little or none at all. I plan on giving it to God for him to give me wisdom to allow the necessary change in my life that would benefit him alone. Peace ; )