BLESSINGS UPON BLESSINGS

What is a blessing? Well I suppose it many ways the honest answer is that it depends on who you ask.

We know that the Lord has his interpretation of what a blessing is, but that doesn’t mean we necessarily always accept it as the one we choose. I think if asked though most of us would consider a blessing to be something good that happens to a person.

Would something bad happen ever qualify as a blessing? I have a feeling that for most people they would most likely say no.

Yet in the Psalms we are told that “blessed” men go through valleys of “Baca,” which means tears. And I heard it pointed out that the word for blessing in that context is a continual state of blessing.

That to me doesn’t translate into meaning that being blessed is like one long visit to an amusement park or a continuing state of every day being like Christmas either. And the truth lies somewhere between total joy and complete sorrow.

In that sense perhaps the greatest blessing is not one measured in substances we can relate to only with the flesh. A real blessing would be one that to me draws us closer to the Lord for isn’t knowledge of God a far greater and lasting joy than some temporary gift for this life.

This would thus grant the idea of any experience where we learn from it would be a blessing for we come away from the moment with some insight we didn’t have before. It might be a good experience or a bad one, but if it draws us closer to the Lord then that would be a true blessing.

The main difference naturally is that this isn’t necessarily the kind of blessing that grants us any reason to boast. We can’t impress people, but that is a more an issue for our heart than our souls.

Several years ago I went through a life threatening medical emergency. I was grateful to the Lord that he healed me and brought me through the crisis. And even though it left me with a very large medical debt that I will take years to pay, I count the experience as a blessing.

It resulted in me making a major lifestyle change for the better and that was definitely a good thing. But for me the real blessing was in the darkest moments I had mine own special visions from the Lord. It brought me so much closer to see him as real and feeling a sense of reality about my salvation and heaven than I had before.

So I look up that aspect is what the Lord did work his good in all things. And I rejoice at his mercy that did touch me in a special way during that time. It doesn’t translate into dollars and sense for my pocket book, but on the inside where it counts I truly feel blessed.