Luke 6:20-26
“Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.
21 Blessed are you who hunger now, (Matthew 5 adds "for righteousness"
for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
22 Blessed are you when people hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,because of the Son of Man.
for yours is the kingdom of God.
21 Blessed are you who hunger now, (Matthew 5 adds "for righteousness"
for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
22 Blessed are you when people hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,because of the Son of Man.
23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.
24 “But woe to you who are rich,
for you have already received your comfort.
25 Woe to you who are well fed now,
for you will go hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will mourn and weep.
26 Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.
for you have already received your comfort.
25 Woe to you who are well fed now,
for you will go hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will mourn and weep.
26 Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.
Hmm. I went through this list and feel like I fall so short of the one who is blessed. I know I am still proud in spirit in many ways. I know I don't always hunger for righteousness. I know I don't always weep over my sins and have such regrets. Very few times in my life have I been hated/excluded/insulted/rejected because I love Jesus....
So what can I do? I fall at the mercy of Jesus and lay at his feet and say sorry and ask for help. That's basically all I can ever do. Because I fall short ALL the time. Because I need help ALL the time. I want to be the blessed person described above not for the rewards (although look at the list....the rewards are AMAZING) but because it'll mean I am more like Jesus and living as I ought to. Sanctification is a painfully slow process. I wish God would speed it up for me!! But thankfully he is working on me and will be faithful to complete what he started in me when I reach Heaven. But why oh why am I still struggling with the same old same old?
Romans 7:21-25
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
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