"Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.
Blessed are you who hunger now,
for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
Blessed are you when men hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,
because of the Son of Man.
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their fathers treated the prophets.
But woe to you who are rich,
for you have already received your comfort.
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.
Woe to you when all men speak well of you,
for that is how their fathers treated the false
prophets." (Luke 6:20-26)
I am rich and comfortable. I am certainly well fed...OVERfed, in fact. I laugh all the time...every day...it's one of the things I love about my relationship with Jason. Do we ever really KNOW how people speak of us behind our backs? I don't KNOW what people say about me but I don't think they call me evil or insult me.
In Africa I saw the poor, the hungry, the weeping and the excluded. I am not any of those things.
I read this scripture and I try to put myself in it and apply it to me and what I see is that I am living my "heaven" NOW?!? So what does this mean?
if you like what you see...
3 comments:
Keri, I don't believe for a moment you're the kind of person that scripture is referring to. Consider the larger context of what the scriptures taken as a whole tell us about what kind of people we are and aren't supposed to be. I think the "rich" in this case are more than people who have; it's the ones who worship what they have. (No one can serve two masters, etc.) You are one of the finest servants of God it's my honor to know.
Ben
http://kissthecook-ben.blogspot.com/
Ben, thank you so much for your encouragement!
If you were not open to giving of yourself to the Lord, you would never even have THOUGHT these thoughts.
Keep giving of yourself - - - time, energy, money. That's what the Lord wants from you.
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