Matthew 5 Be Attitudes....Easy and Hard sayings.

Matthew 5 is the beginning of the sermon on the mount.  You'll find the next few chapters chock full of Jesus teaching.  Some of it is an easy Amen...while other things are harder for our flesh to take.  I love the part that assures us that when we allow God to help us to be merciful that in our life we will receive mercy, but the part about loving your enemies and praying for them can be harder to take when you are in the throws of a situation where someone is doing you wrong.  It doesn't mean that you let people run all over you...Jesus didn't do that....but it does mean that you begin to understand that everyone has an eternal soul that will go to Heaven or Hell and so to pray for their good and desire them to be right with God is allowing yourself to desire the same things Jesus desires.  Some things like praying for your enemies is not about always "feeling" like it...we do it and God blesses the obedience and then sometimes we do "feel" a stiring in our spirit.  Jesus talks about divorce in this chapter as well.  At this point of history it was easy for a middle easterner to divorce his wife for any little thing.  All he had to do was to walk around her three times and say I divorce you...and she would be on the street or in the best case she would have to go back with her parents if they would take her.  Jesus made it clear that God never intented for men to throw their wife away for any little purpose.  As you read what sayings were easy for you?  What sayings were hard for your flesh to take in at this time?