The Blessings

Matthew 5: 1-12

Good News! Blessings! A world upside down, backwards.We have to think a whole new way. This is the stuff that scares me, because I am so resistant to change. I want to be comfortable, the old routines are known, and inconspicuous. It is a struggle even though this is Gospel, Good News.
As I read Wrights explaination I began to see these differently. The description of them as announcements makes it a little easier to see what is being said. In the world I have carried a saddness for 40 + years and have never really been comforted, but Christ has come to announce that in God's Kingdom I will be. He suggests that the Lords prayer tell us to pray that God's Kingdom with come and God's Will be done "on earth as in Heavern. I have found it very hard to pray with this kind of focus and on a regular basis. As I read and study over the next 40 days, I want to pray with this kind of focus and regularity. Peter suggested that I write a prayer for each day and I am going to do this at the end of each blog posting.

Father, I want to live by my rules, I want the controls to work the same as always. I am afraid of new ways of doing things. As I listen for your word, open my heart and eyes to the new ways of your Kingdom.