MATTHEW 5:43–48
We should love our enemies because we all see the rising sun through our loving Father’s mercy. We should gather riches in heaven to prevent losing them. We should not worry, because God takes care of us like lilies and grasses in the field. We should pray because our Father in heaven gives good things to those who ask.
Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) aims to explain God’s ideal and urges continuous striving towards it.
All of us, including murderers and child abusers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters, are equal before God. The only state suitable for a human being seeking to understand God is one of desperation, and we are all in that position. We can only land in the perfect grace’s safety net because we have fallen from the absolute ideal.
