Is it true that "Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal?" It is true! That is precisely the Beatitudes. And you don't have to wait until you're dead. Jesus offers to all such people as these the present blessedness of the present kingdom -- regardless of circumstances. The condition of life sought for by human beings through the ages is attained in the quietly transforming friendship of Jesus.
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Speaking to these common people, the "multitudes," who through him had found blessing in the kingdom, Jesus tells them it is they, not the "best and the brightest" on the human scale, who are to make life manageable as they live from the kingdom (Matt. 5:13-16). God gives them "light" -- truth, love, power -- that they might be the light for their surroundings. He makes them "salt" to cleanse, preserve, and flavor the times through which they live.
Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy, pp. 124-5
Monday, April 25, 2011
Present Blessedness
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