By Eberhard Arnold
Salt and light-weight places arms and ft to the calls for of the Sermon at the Mount from the perspective of a author who believes they don't seem to be in basic terms doable, yet inescapable - anything for us to reside out this day. within the Sermon at the Mount, Jesus places apart his ordinary parables and speaks it seems that in language a person can comprehend. but for hundreds of years numerous students have dissected and analyzed those very important phrases - and brushed off their challenging precepts as unrealistic or symbolic. Like Francis of Assisi and others, Arnold selected to reside Jesus' phrases. He chanced on new lifestyles through embracing the self-sacrificing calls for of the Sermon at the Mount. This selection of talks and essays vividly describes a therapeutic, energizing energy for these confused by way of the worries of lifestyle. Arnold calls us to stay for the Sermon's final target: the overturning of the present order of injustice and construction as an alternative a simply, peaceful society encouraged by means of love.
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Blessed are those who are so poor that they hunger and thirst. Blessed are those who feel this hunger and thirst for justice, for the justice of the heart, of love, for the establishment of peace in unity. For they are the people who carry the pain of the world on their hearts, who carry the suffering of the world in their innermost being. They do not think of themselves, for their whole heart is turned toward others. Yet they are the people who are misunderstood and persecuted because they love justice and do not take part in injustice.
Neither do economic problems stop us. That which is loud and conspicuous must end, for creation takes place in quiet – germinating life is hidden. Humans cannot hear the harmony of the cherubim and galaxies in their eternal worship of God. So too, in the life that comes from God, prayer is chaste and hidden. The Father looks for life in what is hidden. The remote mountain, the barren steppe, and the closed room are the places of final decision. These secluded hours are brief and clear. Their content is simple and concerned with one thing alone: the kingdom of God on earth, and that his will is done on earth.
Blessed are you when you are persecuted! There is no hint of a specialized religious life. The mark of the citizens of the kingdom is the simple fact that they are poor, despised, and maligned; that they hunger and thirst and know suffering. Luke cannot ignore the words: Woe to you that are rich! Woe to you that are full! Woe to you that laugh! Woe to you of whom people only speak well! ” applies wherever anything is seen as a possession, as a substance of life, as admirable, even as a commonly recognized necessity.
