"Get happy! Be glad! because your compensation is sky high! They persecuted the prophets who came before you just like that, too!" Matthew 5:12.
Jesus does it again: turns our experience upside down. He calls us to repent. Even to change the way we take things. We've got to get this, that we belong to his kingdom. And the rules of his kingdom don't mesh with our past experience. It's hard to rejoice in the middle of insults. Sure it is. (That's why it's called repentance - as they say, If it was easy, everybody'd do it.) God has made a new treaty - his kingdom is real. And we live by its new rules right now.
We visit with a brother or sister today orienting ourselves to the new life of the kingdom. And together we give thanks to God for doing something about the mess we humans made in doing it our way.
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