https://cac.org/becoming-pure-in-heart-2018-10-30/
becoming pure at heart
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
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We can’t risk walking around with a negative resentfulgossipy, critical mind, because then we won’t be in our ๐นtrue force field.๐พ
๐ฟThat’s why Jesus commanded us
to love.๐พ
๐ฟLove
It moves us beyond our “private I” and into the full reality of we.๐พ
๐our inner attitudes and states are the real sources of our problems.๐ณ
We need to root out the problems at that deepest interior level.
☘️Jesus says we must not kill, that we must not even harbor hateful anger.❤️
๐นa “pure heart” ❤️(Matthew 5:8)
๐ปToo often we force outward responses while the inward intent remains like a cancer.๐ผ
If we walk around with hatred all day, morally we’re just as much killers as the one who pulls the trigger.
❤️We can’t live that way and not be destroyed from within. ๐ฑ
๐ปThe evil and genocide of both World War I and World War II were the result of decades of
negative, resentful, and paranoid thinking and feeling among even good Christian people.๐ผ
Jesus tells us not to harbor hateful anger or call people names in our hearts like “fool” or “worthless person”(Matthew 5:22).
๐If we’re walking around all day thinking, “What idiots!” we’re living out of death, not life.๐ฟ
We cannot afford any disconnection from love.
In Matthew 5:44, Jesus insists that we love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.
๐ปOnce we recognize whatever
we do in conscious, loving union with Reality is prayer, we can better understand what Paul means by saying“Pray unceasingly”(1 Thessalonians 5:17).๐ฟ
Reference:
Adapted from Richard Rohr: Essential Teachings on Love, ed. Joelle Chase and Judy Traeger (Orbis Books: 2018), 157.