Blessed are the....

Doing a little reading of the sermon on the mount today and one thing really came to me....If you want to be blessed there are some things you are going to have to do. God's blessing comes with a price.....Check this out......Matthew ch 5 (MSG)

• “You’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.
  
• “You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.
  
• “You’re blessed when you’re content with just who you are—no more, no less. That’s the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can’t be bought.
  
• “You’re blessed when you’ve worked up a good appetite for God. He’s food and drink in the best meal you’ll ever eat.
  
• “You’re blessed when you care. At the moment of being ‘carefull,’ you find yourselves cared for.
  
• “You’re blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.
  
• “You’re blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That’s when you discover who you really are, and your place in God’s family.
  
• “You’re blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God’s kingdom.
  
• “Not only that—count yourselves blessed every time people put you down or throw you out or speak lies about you to discredit me. What it means is that the truth is too close for comfort and they are uncomfortable.

Some great blessings.....Sadly, most of these things don't feel like blessings. Show's you just how different our world can be from God's world.....