I’ve been reading Mathew 5 lately and have become convinced that I could spend the rest of my life working on this chapter. If I were told to memorize one chapter because my bible would be taken from me, Mathew 5 would be it hands down. I stopped on blessed are the meek for they will inherit the earth and I looked up the word meek, quiet, gentle and easily imposed on. I realized that I’m hardly any of those things, in fact I’m quite the opposite most of the time. How bout the whole part about loving our enemies?! I stink at that too and I have to admit, that doesn’t sound like an exciting thing to learn. Jesus teaches a lot of hard things in this chapter. I always thought of the beatitudes as this cute little thing we learned in sunday school as children. Nothing cute and easy about the beatitudes:) These attitudes go against how most of us are wired. I only hope that by the end of my life with much time and season, that I can be more like Jesus.
Anyone else have any books or scriptures that really hit them like this?
