It is very common to hear someone say “I am blessed” because of what someone has done towards us. But have you ever thought about what the word bless or blessing means? The Greek word used in the New Testament that is translated to the English word bless means to think and speak well of someone. This being true then what does the following scripture tell us about how God our Father thinks about us.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
(Eph 1:3-4)
Do you see that before the foundation of the universe that God was thinking and speaking well of us? This being true then can we grasp, that right now, he is thinking and speaking well of us? His desire is for us and for us to know how great is the love that he has for us that we should be called the children God. Children born not of natural descent or by a husband’s will but born of God. Let us dare to believe what God has declared to be true about us and then be a blessing to others.
Blessings,
Kevin