The Sermon on the Mount warns us to beware of false prophets...and as I studied that this morning, I flashed that my false prophet is a self-determined objective. Those objectives, driven by ego, have an underneath-it-all reason for being which, face it, is to get over on, get back at, set 'em straight. In a word...resist.
No wonder my Father showed me early on that resist not evil was to be my life's guideline...and for sure it has been. How else could my unfair, unjust, not right IRS experience become my thank you, Father, spiritual experience? Which it is today.
According to me, the purpose of the Sermon is for us to seek for the underlying message beneath the strictures laid out. To narrow our search considerably, here's a hint...the underlying message is I am the source of all my woes which necessarily includes any current problem. In short, start digging...within.
The Sermon itself is fairly short, not sweet, seemingly rigid, righteous and right...as in, among others, if someone slaps you upside the head, turn the other cheek and if someone steals your cloak, run after them and give them your coat and, of course, resist not evil.
Does any of those make a lick of sense to our reasoning mind? No!...which is spiritual growth's soft assurance that we need to change our mind. In preparation for the essential exchange of our mind which at the start of our study we know naught of.
The exchange comes slowly and is entirely dependent on our reliance on our Father. It is our Father within who relieves us of our reasoning mind's rigid surety...i.e., fear...in exchange for our spiritual mind's trust in an unseeable, untouchable...unprovable!...God.
That God which is present by our presence when we go beyond reason to love. Or, resist not evil.
Thank you.
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