{"id":10494,"date":"2012-04-26T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=10494"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:25:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:25:46","slug":"the-beatitudes-the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/26\/the-beatitudes-the-message\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beatitudes (The Message)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The other day I was praying the Beatitudes<\/a>\u00a0and remembered that years ago I rather enjoyed the version found in “The Message”<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n

“The Message”<\/em><\/span> is a paraphrase<\/span>, rather than a translation<\/span>\u00a0of Sacred Scripture.\u00a0Its purpose is to produce the Bible in more contemporary language.\u00a0Some of the rendering attempts are honestly pretty awful. However, I have found this book to be of some use, especially when reading passages with which I’ve been extremely familiar.<\/p>\n

Here’s its attempt at the Beatitudes:<\/p>\n

When Jesus saw his ministry drawing huge crowds, he climbed a hillside. Those who were apprenticed to him, the committed, climbed with him. Arriving at a quiet place, he sat down and taught his climbing companions. This is what he said:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“You’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“You’re blessed when you’re content with just who you are\u2014no more, no less. That’s the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can’t be bought.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

“You’re blessed when you’ve worked up a good appetite for God. He’s food and drink in the best meal you’ll ever eat.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“You’re blessed when you care. At the moment of being ‘care-full,’ you find yourselves cared for.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“You’re blessed when you get your inside world\u2014your mind and heart\u2014put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“You’re blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That’s when you discover who you really are, and your place in God’s family.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“You’re blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God’s kingdom.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“Not only that\u2014count yourselves blessed every time people put you down or throw you out or speak lies about you to discredit me. What it means is that the truth is too close for comfort and they are uncomfortable. You can be glad when that happens\u2014give a cheer, even!\u2014for though they don’t like it, I do! And all heaven applauds. And know that you are in good company. My prophets and witnesses have always gotten into this kind of trouble.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I was praying the Beatitudes\u00a0and remembered that years ago I rather enjoyed the version found in “The Message”. “The Message” is a paraphrase, rather than a translation\u00a0of Sacred Scripture.\u00a0Its purpose is to produce the Bible in more contemporary language.\u00a0Some of the rendering attempts are honestly pretty awful. However, I have found this book to be of some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1069,2969,1071,883,1068,1067,1072],"class_list":["post-10494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-eugene-peterson","tag-featured","tag-paraphrase","tag-the-beatitudes","tag-the-message","tag-thea-beatitudes","tag-translation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10494"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56480,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494\/revisions\/56480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}