On the Flip SideSample

Have you ever tried to get away with doing the absolute bare minimum? Like in gym class, I was supposed to "run a mile," but then I figured out I could get away with walking if I just scrunched up my face and swung my arms kind of fast to look like I was trying. And it worked! Or, at least, it was "good enough." If we're honest, there are probably a lot of areas of our lives where we're trying to get away with doing what's "good enough," not just in school but in our relationships and our faith too. In Matthew 5, Jesus preaches a sermon where he repeatedly says, "You've heard one thing, but here's what I say instead." He keeps flipping ideas on their heads to get us to think differently about what God wants from us. One of those ideas is about how we treat each other. "If someone asks you to walk with them a mile," he said, "walk two." Because when it comes to loving others, Jesus flipped our understanding of what’s good enough.