Free flowing questions to Jesus: When you first realized the truths that you later preached in the Sermon, afterward, did you walk those truths without inner bumps and bruises? Without self doubts? With unquestioning love? Did you feel love within for the Judases of your world even as you agreed with them quickly?
Ah, this may well be my Rosetta Stone moment. I am stuck in Jesus' humanhood. I suspect I need a blinding flash of the obvious into consciousness of his divinity. From my eyebrows up, I understand, but I'm slowly realizing that he walked both at the same time. Which fact I "learned" in catechetical class when I was 12 years old. Slow to learn. No, slow to realize.
Jesus preached the Sermon to aid our consciousness in being lifted...which may or may never be...but by walking it, we will live a better humanhood. Better humanhood is out of self, and out of self is nigh on a guarantee of personal peace.
Isn't the core lesson of the entire Sermon the denial of self? Or, deeper, the ceding of self for the benefit of others.
Short form of the Sermon: Get over yourself.
Ah-ha! BFO...or plain old common sense, more like: That's how civilization gets broken down...looking for the short form. The Sermon needs every word that was preached then and that stands today. Mainly because we need each and every word for us to question unto realization.
We may hear get over yourself and know it as right, but our usual reaction is to mentally flip the bird and walk on without another thought.
Quick thought...the quote that the wheels of justice turn slow but grind exceedingly fine... I'm convinced spiritual realization comes slow in order to grow exceedingly deep. Since some of us are slow on the realization uptake, we can be grateful.
Thank you.
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