by TheRestlessPilgrim | Feb 23, 2018 | Blog, Reflections From Matthew
Matthew 5:48 (NKJV) “Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.” This injunction towards perfection was made in the context of the instruction to love our enemies, to bless those who curse us, to do good to those who hate us and to pray...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Feb 22, 2018 | Blog, Reflections From Matthew
Matthew 5:42 (NKJV) “Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.” We must be givers for our Father in heaven is a generous Giver. Give lavishly. Give abundantly. Give cheerfully. Just as God has been so generous to...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Feb 21, 2018 | Blog, Reflections From Matthew
Matthew 5:39 (NKJV) “But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.” This sounds and looks like passivity, and I hate passive people because they refuse to take responsibility for the...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Feb 20, 2018 | Blog, Reflections From Matthew
Matthew 5:37 (NKJV) “But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.” This is a profound and hard saying, but it cuts to the heart of personal integrity. We try so hard to prove that we are honest and...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Feb 19, 2018 | Blog, Reflections From Matthew
Matthew 5:29 (NKJV) “If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.” It was said of old that adultery was when an...
