The Law, perhaps, had become an end in itself.
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Longing for the life Jesus offers us
But let us face it — curiosity is not enough.
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These two words will change your life
Two words beginning in “EN” — completely opposite, and completely opposed to one another.
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Again, Jesus speaks with authority
Was this Jesus announcing that he knew who he was and, in a certain sense, was self-declaring that the Messiah had indeed come?
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Recognize, seek the good
Jesus, the great teacher, teaches us, too, and leads us to look and to see with the eyes of our hearts.
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Our ‘yes’ to Jesus is ‘yes’ to seeing
That “yes,” however, means that we believe in his teachings, his example, his way of life, his values, his surrendering to God, his unequivocal “yes” to loving always, his preference for the poor and marginalized, and his refusal to be blind followers of the law.
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Letting the good bless us
Don’t perform in order to be praised and noticed. Do the good; serve others.
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Jesus captures within his teaching totality of love, beyond what ‘you have heard’
His reason is simple: that is what God does: “he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.”
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The fulfillment of the law calls us to love, reconcile, heal, peacefully coexist with our neighbor
Jesus sees the law as “calling us to be holy as God is holy.”
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The word of God offers a biblical mirror for us to look into
Once again, the word of God offers a biblical mirror for us to look into to see and hear what, and how and when, we live that harmony and balance, or sink into dissonance and disarray.
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