I don't wish to make you gag but my husband and I are blissfully happy. We are still newlyweds after 4 years of legally wedded bliss. It's even more years of being 'committed' in God's eyes; we just hadn't been legally married. We are bordering on an old married couple. Very often we wonder why we are so blessed and like any good gay couple, we can easily break into song ( from The Sound of Music ) that "we must have done something good". But we will song the whole song.
This might seem like Karma and that is a truth about todays readings. What you sow, you reap. Unfortunately it is not that easy. God judges our hearts and our intent that no one else can really see. Christians are asked to respond to a deeper meaning of the Ten Commandments that can be readily fulfilled by any literalist. What Jesus is telling us is that we need to use the two great commandments as our guide. Furthermore, our thoughts ( carrying grudges ) and malice of the heart can just as easily be a killing tool as any form of murder. As Christians, bullying should be viewed as the killing of a person's soul and esteem, as guilty as murder with a knife.
Being a Christian or being truly faithful to any religion involves your brain and your heart. It is your brain and your heart that will propel you to great heights of faith and growth but can also through you into the bowels of "Gehenna". Whichever you choose being a faithful Christian is more than rules and it's a tough sell. Wouldn't it be easier to just have a check list of things to do to accomplish salvation? That is not what we are about.
We are about sowing good seeds, intent, our brain, self respect, introspection and knowing that when we do good we are already in heaven.
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