Flipped

​As of this past Monday my routine is totally flipped.  Upside down.  Cataract surgery completely reversed my sight capabilities.  Last month I could read most anything including very tiny text without glasses and required strong bifocals to make out things more than 2 feet in front of my face.  Today, I can see past the 2-foot line with clarity and cannot read even relatively large text without ‘cheaters’.  What a change-up.  I walk around with dollar store glasses stuck on my head, ready at a moment’s notice to facilitate reading things from my cell phone to the titles under the microwave buttons.  My world is up-side-down. 
 
Jesus turned the disciples’ world up-side-down 2000 years ago and continues to flip the worlds of everyone who believes in Him and heeds his words.  Here are a few words able to flip my world when I obey rather than follow my very human instincts: (New Living Translation)
 
Matthew 3:9 Don’t just say to each other, ‘We’re safe, for we are descendants of Abraham.’ That means nothing, for I tell you, God can create children of Abraham from these very stones.
 
Matthew 5:22 But I say, if you are even angry with someone, you are subject to judgment! If you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of being brought before the court. And if you curse someone, you are in danger of the fires of hell
 
Matthew 5:28 But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
 
Matthew 5:38-39  “You have heard the law that says the punishment must match the injury: ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39 But I say, do not resist an evil person! If someone slaps you on the right cheek, offer the other cheek also.
 
Matthew 5:44 But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!
 
Matthew 7:4 How can you think of saying to your friend, ‘Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye?
 
I challenge you to read the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew chapters 5 – 7. What challenges you to flip your world and follow?