Friday, June 14, 2019

How to Be Blessed

God wants to bless you. He offers you His blessings through Jesus Christ, but you must receive. He forces His blessings on no one. You receive the blessings of God through faith in Christ. He was crucified to take away all your sins. He is risen from the dead to bless you. 

If God gave His only Son for you, then He will not withhold any blessing from you. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ" (Ephesians 1:3). Every blessing God has for you is in Christ.

There is only one person in the whole world who can keep you from being blessed by God and that's you. Yes, you make that choice. God has already made His choice. No doubt, that choice is seen in Christ crucified and risen from the dead. 

The opposite of being blessed is being cursed. To be cursed is to be cut off from the blessings of God. He will not cut you off from being blessed, but our sins cut us off from His blessings. Christ died to remove the curse of our sins. "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law" (Galatians 3:13). The blessings of God are all for you by faith in Christ.