Upside Down!

That's how I feel.  Do you?  Its truly a different world in just two weeks.  Its amusing to observe many of my teaching colleagues who have been teaching all of their lives and have sent their children off to school every day.  They now are in home school mode.  Well, many of us have been there and done that.  Right?  At least 50% of the folks in our town are now unemployed.  Some will be taken care of with the stimulus package.  But, we all have to start looking ahead on how we are going to survive this wild time.  Our God is good and He always provides for his own.  Today we were reading in Luke 6.  Such encouraging teaching from the Savior.  Luke 6 is all about Kingdom Living.  Living like sons and daughters of the King of Kings.  But we might be in for more of how the King lived while he walked this earth.  We are forced to live the simple life.  Jesus in these words teaches the Beatitudes, asks us to "turn the other cheek and produce good fruit.  Goals!  Yes, Goals for Coronalife 20.  We have more time.  We can now be intentional in living for the King.  Love, do good, be meek, and all the other humbling things that God asks us to do.  Hmmmm.  Maybe a slow down will make us more intentional in being a son or daughter of King Jesus!

Lots of amazing teaching here:  Luke 6  20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said:

“Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

21 “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied.

“Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

22 “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! 23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.

Jesus Pronounces Woes
Love Your Enemies

24 “But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.

25 “Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry.

“Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

26 “Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

27 “But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. 29 To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic[b] either. 30 Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. 31 And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

32 “If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. 36 Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.