On the Flip SideSample

Have you ever assumed something was true but later found out you were totally wrong? Like when you assumed the gas puddles in your driveway were melted rainbows — until your fact-checker friend Googled it and told you you were trippin'. Yeah, we all make some wrong assumptions sometimes. Sometimes about gas puddles, sometimes about each other, and sometimes even about God. When Jesus was here on earth, he spent a lot of time correcting people's incorrect beliefs about God and each other. At that time, many people were under the assumption that God favored people who followed every religious law, seemed really holy, and had it all together. But in Jesus' famous Sermon on the Mount, he flipped all of that upside down. He said the most "blessed" people in God's kingdom are actually the poor. The grieving. The merciful. Not the most perfect, popular, richest, or the people with the best church attendance. Instead, God values the people most people don't. That's why I'm so glad Jesus flipped our assumptions about who God values.