A Time for Change

God comes to us and challenges us through Christ. Read Jesus’s statements about where blessings and woes lie, and let His words inform your actions. As a new month begins, what changes do you need to make?

Luke 6:12-26 – 

¹²Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. ¹³And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: ¹⁴Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, ¹⁵and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was called the Zealot, ¹⁶and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

¹⁷He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. ¹⁸They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. ¹⁹And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them.

²⁰Then he looked up at 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 will be filled. 
“Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. 
²²“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. ²³Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets. 
²⁴“But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. 
²⁵“Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. 
“Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. 
²⁶“Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets.