Beatitudes
September 30, 2022
Jesus’ teachings often sounded contradictory. Matthew 5 states that mourners will be blessed! And comforted.
You’ll be blessed if you mourn? Yes, you mourn because you have compassion, feel pain. And God comforts. Those who are heartless and don’t mourn, God need not and will not comfort them. They are self-focused.
Will not those who hunger and thirst to be right before God just be frustrated? Of course, no human can be righteous. Impossible. But its God who declares us righteous, and He has the power to do so. We can’t, He can.
To be blessed by persecution? (for righteousness sake). Yes, because that’s evidence of real conviction, not convenience. God’s attention is summoned, and He grants us His Kingdom, a blessing no one can take from us.