Look at a Woman and it's all Downhill

When you are with God, pure belief will grant you a fulfilled life.

“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely
Say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward I heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets
Who were before you.” (Mathew 5:11)

I’m sorry if this starts out with me being so deep you might think you’ll die before you get your feet planted on the ground. But I just thought I could somehow paraphrase or understand the meaning of the passage above.

Believing in God is a gift. If people insult you because of that gift, don’t feel lessened or insulted. Just be happy that you have something they don’t, and you have faith, which is one of the hardest things to obtain.

Plus, them finding faults in your belief in Jesus will later go on to haunt them because Jesus can do a lot of things.

Karma.

And Jesus.

Chapters five and six basically go on to explain subjects such as murder, adultery, love for enemies.

It’s kind of like teachings of sorts.

Yes, it is a fact that anyone who murders will be subject to judgment. But keep in mind that anyone who is angry at his brother (or anyone, for that matter) will be subject to judgment, too.

They say that adultery is a sin. But even thinking about a woman lustfully is committing adultery in your heart.

Everyone has heard to always keep an oath to God, and I guess an oath to other people as well. But, just don’t make oaths, period. “Let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’, and your ‘No,’ ‘No’. Anything beyond this comes from the evil one.”

Love your enemies. Well, no idea how we will come to following that one. But if anything, accomplishing the impossible would be a great achievement.

Do not do acts of kindness just for the sake of announcing your awesomeness and ‘sincerity’ to the world. Do them just for the sake of doing them. And let your actions be kept secret, so only God knows, and then he will reward you.

“Do not worry about your life, what you will eat of drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important that clothes?” (Mathew 6:21)

Enjoy life as it is, as it comes to you. Be happy that you’ve been given the privilege to live. Don’t worry about tomorrow. Focus on today, the present, the now.

This is what Jesus said, and he said it with an authority that had the crowds amazed.

Okay, so I have liked the Gospel of Mathew so far. It’s actually quite interesting, given that the story is always changing.

What I’m wondering is, who in the world is this Mathew guy?

Because, so far, not once has his name come up.

So maybe he’s not an actual character in the endeavors, and is maybe the guy who wrote this in the first place?

Is this my ignorance again, or am I just one of the many with no idea of how this guy came to have his name printed on top of each page?

That is something I’d love to know.

No joke.

But either way, my time with ‘Mathew’ has been fun.

If only I knew who he was.