I awoke this morning with the thought, "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth," and I understood that is why "thank you" is the only prayer we will ever need (not want, but need).
The Beatitudes in their entirety are simply a set of paradoxes that introduce the Sermon on the Mount, an entirely paradoxical sermon if ever there was one.
In essence, when the Sermon says that you have been told, etc., etc., etc., but I say unto you, etc. etc. etc., what we get to understand is that what our reasoning mind once advocated is the opposite of God's perfect will. [Ye have heard that it hath been said An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. -- Matthew 5:38-39]
"Resist not evil," "turn the other cheek." Our reasoning mind would never arrive at either of those as a good idea. But God did...God does and forever shall.
The hardest thing we're ever going to be asked to do is to change our mind...according to me. The awakening is in the realization that that does not mean only to change our mind from either/or, black/white thinking for that is just staying at the reasoning mind level. No. We are asked to let go of our ego-victory senses...our I-am-right-and-you-are-wrong does not exist in God's world. (It does, however, in the material world, and if we're ever going to cease fighting everything and everybody, we're going to have to give that up, too...and first.)
The gold, however, is in our risking being lifted into the fourth dimension of reality...detached from our personal wants, fulfilled by our one, already met, need: to serve God and man.
Thank you.
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