Ever notice how often we, as Christians, use the word "blessed" in
normal everyday conversations? One lady
just told me an amazing story of an answer to prayer. Wow...is my
response...because sometimes God moves Heaven and earth to work out
circumstances to make things happen in His grand scheme of our lives.
I just read
a post about a miracle that happened in the life of a believer. Ending words
were "I am blessed." I am blessed to have a circle of
friends that agree with me in beliefs and in my pursuits. Yes …. “I am
blessed.”
We are a blessed people. If you don’t believe
me, take a trip to a developing country and see what one day looks like in the life a child who doesn't know where their next meal is going to come from. That glimpse
alone will change you.
I find that when having faith
conversations with others, we
tend to connect being “blessed” with only good things that happen in our lives, or the things that go our way.
What about the not-so-good things that happen in our lives? What
about the trials that are sent our way to build our faith?
Those
are blessings too. In your journey and as you faithfully dig your heels
in, if you are one who continues to seek God in obedience, in my opinion you
are “blessed”.
We
are blessed because we are loved, forgiven, and
saved from certain death.
We
are blessed because we are God's.
We are blessed because he loved us first.
I
am even blessed when I compare my journeys with those who seem to have it all
together. Let me tell you....there is no one
who has it all together.
In my constant need to
self-evaluate,
I have found that I breed dissatisfaction.
I
tend to focus on those too-good-to-be-true moments in life as the only
blessings from God. I ponder a lot of deep spiritual stuff….and sometimes I ask myself
some hard questions. Questions I don't know the answers to. When I
come up with my blank answer sheet I feel inadequate.
As I uncover the full impact of God’s endless love, I have discovered that
being blessed means being close to God. No
matter what current life circumstance is hovering right now, whether it is a one disappointment after another, or one continuous happy occasion. I am blessed because I am
His. I am blessed in my
weaknesses, failures and insecurities. I have the freedom to run to God
without having to clean up before. I
find strength for the desert moments, mercy translates my clumsy words, and
I am blessed with joy as my cup of life is filled with change.
In
my journey to God’s wisdom, I realize that all of life is one heaping serving
of blessings after another. Each
life portion is a blessed generous helping.
Each problem pile is blessed-filled
for my good. Each lovely and measured circumstance are for His blessed purpose. I am blessed indeed.
Psalms 1:1-3 Blessed is the man who does
not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in
the seat of mockers. But
his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and
night. He is like a tree
planted by streams of water which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf
does not wither. Whatever
he does prospers.
That's a blessed life…that’s
beautiful...
