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You can put something simple here, so ones have somewhere to start.
About being like Jesus, I have recently noted how Jesus starts His Sermon on the Mount > with how to be >
"poor in spirit".
Of all the things Jesus could think of, the first thing He says is to be "poor in spirit".
And He says people are "blessed" to be like this. So, this can not mean we are very short on the blessing of God's Spirit, or that would not be blessed. And how is Jesus blessed to be "poor in spirit"? How might this mean how Jesus is?
My personal thing is it could mean Jesus does not care about being rich and having a lot and having power . . . though Jesus does have everything that is good. What matters to Jesus is being intimate with His Father and loving us while caring for any and all enemies, even.
And so He is "poor", meaning He cares more about loving, and not really about material possession and power and political control.
It is also like how you can see a woman and want her and already you're in adultery, just by the wanting. So, instead it is good to love a woman and in your heart care about her and not want to just use her. And so, this is a way of being "poor in spirit" . . . how you aren't trying to be rich so you can get what you want from women.
And our intimacy with Jesus is better . . . more perfectly beautiful and pleasant . . . than being intimate with feelings of pleasure without getting to know and enjoy and love a woman.
Love is better, I offer from experience!
About being like Jesus, I have recently noted how Jesus starts His Sermon on the Mount > with how to be >
"poor in spirit".
Of all the things Jesus could think of, the first thing He says is to be "poor in spirit".
And He says people are "blessed" to be like this. So, this can not mean we are very short on the blessing of God's Spirit, or that would not be blessed. And how is Jesus blessed to be "poor in spirit"? How might this mean how Jesus is?
My personal thing is it could mean Jesus does not care about being rich and having a lot and having power . . . though Jesus does have everything that is good. What matters to Jesus is being intimate with His Father and loving us while caring for any and all enemies, even.
And so He is "poor", meaning He cares more about loving, and not really about material possession and power and political control.
It is also like how you can see a woman and want her and already you're in adultery, just by the wanting. So, instead it is good to love a woman and in your heart care about her and not want to just use her. And so, this is a way of being "poor in spirit" . . . how you aren't trying to be rich so you can get what you want from women.
And our intimacy with Jesus is better . . . more perfectly beautiful and pleasant . . . than being intimate with feelings of pleasure without getting to know and enjoy and love a woman.
Love is better, I offer from experience!
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