Radical Reconstruction

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

September 26, 2025

Radical Reconstruction

Be happy about it! Be very glad! For a great reward awaits you in heaven.

Matthew 5:12a 

Jesus’ promise above is in the epilogue to The Beatitudes, the beginning of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. (Matthew 5-6-7) The beatitudes point to the work of God to form Christ in the followers of Jesus. Work insufficiently describes what God is doing in our lives. We are receiving, at the hand of God, a total radical reconstruction. Consider the movement of the beatitudes:

We are poor in spirit. We can’t save ourselves, no matter how hard we try. 

We mourn – we repent of our self-sufficiency. 

We are meek – we surrender control to God. 

We hunger and thirst. We are so grateful for God’s presence in our lives, we want more of Him.

We are merciful. The closer we get to God the more we forgive others.

We are pure in heart – we change our outlook by asking God to change our             heart.           

We become peacemakers – we love others, we plant seeds of peace.

We are persecuted – we endure injustice.

This is no casual change; this is radical reconstruction as foretold by the Apostle Paul:

This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! (2 Corinthians 5:17)

My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)

My Takeaway: Is my expectation of what God wants for my life, the same as God’s plan for total reconstruction of my life? Is yours? (Max Lucado’s book, The Applause of Heaven, is an excellent study of the beatitudes.)

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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