The Verbs of Jesus

Armodoxy for Today: Verbs of Jesus

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus say, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7)

Christianity is a religion of action, we know, and the direction to that action is given to us by Christ himself. Ask, seek and knock are all verbs, words of action.

Isaac Newton put forth the third law of motion, to every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. For Newton this was a law about energy and heat flow, although the law easily describes the dynamics at play in Jesus’ statement. And although Newton did not make that connection, it doesn’t escape us the Sir Isaac was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, author and theologian.

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