Heart Support

Through comparing and contrasting the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes, the purpose of life has become less about morality and more about attitude.  Morality is mostly associated with "good and bad" or "right and wrong" choices in life.  While morality is important to God, your heart is of much greater value.  True morality begins as an attitude within the heart; furthermore, an individual is not considered to be moral on the basis of a few "good" choices.  Consequently, in order to "be good" or "do good," an individual must have an absolute source of "good."  Since God is good, moral behavior flows from Him alone.  Morality is very similar to a lifestyle; therefore, living a moral life is the fruitful results of a correct attitude.  God outlined this attitude through the Ten Commandments in order to ensure the Israelites a joy-filled, fruitful life, but they replaced the true meaning of the Law with a moral basis for living.  Thus, Jesus presented the Beatitudes in order to restore the Law to its proper place among men.