While the Dunning-Kruger effect essentially lies to you about the state that you are in, these statement, often called the Beatitudes, tell the truth.  Life is hard.  Following Jesus is hard.  Anyone who says it’s not is trying to sell you something.  But I think most of us are here this morning not because we have escaped the hardness of life, but because we have experienced it, and we know that there’s blessedness in the midst of it.  We know that what Jesus says is true.