"and solemnly lifting up His eyes on His disciples, He said: blessed (happy--with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition--and to be envied) are you poor and lowly and afflicted (destitute of wealth, influence, position, and honor), for the kingdom of God is yours!
blessed are you who hunger and seek with eager desire now, for you shall be filled and completely satisfied! blessed are you who weep and sob now, for you shall laugh!
blessed are you when people despise (hate) you, and when they exclude and excommunicate you [as disreputable] and revile and denounce you and defame and cast out and spurn your name as evil (wicked) on account of the Son of Man.
rejoice and be glad at such a time and exult and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is rich and great and strong and intense and abundant in heaven; for even so their forefathers treated the prophets.
but woe to (alas for) you who are rich (abounding in material resources), for you already are receiving your consolation (the solace and sense of strengthening and cheer that come from prosperity) and have taken and enjoyed your comfort in full [having nothing left to be awarded you].
woe to (alas for) you who are full now (completely filled, luxuriously gorged and satiated), for you shall hunger and suffer want! Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep and wail!
woe to you when everyone speaks fairly and handsomely of you and praises you, for even so their forefathers did to the false prophets."
~ luke 6.20-26, amplified bible
what do people say about you? what do you think about yourself? are they the same?
more importantly, what would God say about you?
"woe to you when everyone speaks fairly and handsomely of you..." but blessed are you who wait patiently to receive your rewards from the Maker when you finally meet face to face.
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