I love the
upside-down, sideways, backward-ness of Jesus.
Take everything you
know and look at it while standing on your head. If that doesn’t work, look at
it in a mirror. If that doesn’t work, look at it sideways. If that doesn’t work
. . .
In the Sermon on the
Mount, specifically this week in Matthew 5:38-48, Jesus took the common
knowledge of the day and asked people to look at it differently. He took the
accepted practices and the unbreakable rules and asked folks to consider that
causing harm while following those practices and rules went contrary to why any
of the practices and rules existed in the first place.
As often as we quote
verses from this passage, however, I don’t think that the passage is about the
specific instructions. It is about the attitude Jesus wanted and wants all to
have.
Notice people. They
matter. Treat them as if they matter. Be generous and kind, even when you don’t
feel like it.
If you can’t find a
way to do that, first try standing on your head.
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