I love listening to Jesus in Matt.5,6 &7. I was reading the Beatitudes (thats a funny word we don't normally use). He is telling us how to live in The Kingdom! No wonder we are always saying that God's ways are so different than the way we have been raised. Jesus is telling us how to think Kingdom not natural life. The Kingdom of God is our new born again life. You know, where you love your enemies, bless people who are creepy to you, forgive because you want God to forgive you. Where if you will hunger and thirst after His ways, He will fill you! Fill you with Himself!!!!
My favorite Beatitude is the pure in heart will see God. My translation of that is, if you will keep your motives, words, attitudes right before God you will begin to see His ways/leadings. We can know what He is doing and all He is requiring of us. I need that. I like teaching that we are like a pipe that God wants to pour His Glory and Power through and how clean or clogged we are inside will determine how much of Him pours out of us. To me that means I have to be quick to repent, walk in love, to imitate God as I use to imitate my own dad. I have to know His word to know His will and His ways. It really can be the most fulfilling life.