IT'S NEITHER COMPLICATED NOR EASY

 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother and then come and offer your gift. Make friends quickly with your accuser.... Matthew 5: 23-25

Like most all of the Sermon, this is all about detaching from our own self...specifically, from our own wants and fears. Face it, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you...first be reconciled to your brother and Make friends quickly with your accuser are all about giving over, giving up, giving in.

I submit that Mathew 5:23-25 summarizes most all basic spiritual messages. First in importance being remembering that your brother has something against you. There's the core.

More and more I am believing that a spiritually happy and productive life depends on giving over, giving up, giving in.  All I have is yours it says somewhere in the Bible so our giving over, up and in is our spiritual extension of his gift to us.

Ah, but here's the kicker: We can't get there by simply "understanding the concept" or even knowing that is best for us. Again and yet again, the way to that place, without resistance, is to go beyond reason to love...that exchange of our mind from self, reasoning, to spiritual, higher.

To give over, give up, give in is the essential road to peace for mind, body and soul, but it is just another path to resentment-through-doormat if our mind has not been exchanged...if we have not entered, and do not maintain, a higher consciousness.

The road begins by humbly asking by way of our thank you prayer...it continues the same way. It's neither complicated nor easy; it is, however, the only way.

Thank you.