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This Week's Worship
Blessings I: Touching the Inner Struggles
Theme
The Beatitudes are structured in two major sections. Verses 3–6 focus on the realities of human suffering and need. Verses 7–11, by contrast, emphasize the character traits that believers are to embody in their relationships with others
What is particularly noteworthy is that, within a society shaped by the religious and social framework of the Mosaic Law, Jesus distinguishes between the inner struggles of the human condition and the virtues that should characterize human conduct.
In doing so, He moves beyond a merely legal or external understanding of righteousness and directs attention both to the transformation of the human heart and to the formation of godly character.
Matthew 5:1-6
And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. 2 Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying:
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are those who mourn,
For they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek,
For they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
For they shall be filled.