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NAME THEM ONE BY ONE

by paul hoffmaster
08/20/17
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Believers are the most blessed people in the world, at least according to Biblical script.  Yet in reality, our behavior seems to conflict the evidence of spiritual blessings.  Some Christians go around as if they are on spiritual welfare.  The joy that they exhibited just days before seems to have escaped their memory.  The blessings that God has given them appear to have time restraints.  The application of the Word has faded throughout the generations.  From the time of the initiation of the Word until the current age, displayed Faith among the Believers has continually diminished.  Paul informed the Church in Ephesus that they had received “every spiritual blessing” through Christ.  These blessings were established in Heaven to be distributed to every Christian through Jesus Christ.  God’s plan for His expanded people (non-Jews) was set in motion before the foundation of the world.  God realized that His chosen people would reject Him many times and even turn on His own Son.  He saw a people who, through Jesus, would take up the torch and carry out His will.  He saw them as “holy and without blame.”  (Notice the period after blame in the NES.)  In love, God adopted them as sons.  Man became accepted to God through His Beloved.  Paul sums it up with statements pertaining to our redemption through Jesus’ blood, and the experiencing of God’s Grace to the point of even knowing the “mystery” of His will.  He states that one day we will all be gathered together for a great reunion with the Believers of time past.  Until that time, the Holy Spirit will seal us and become our guarantee of eternal life. (Ephesians 1:3-14)

 We are so blessed, yet we don’t act like it.  Many complain about little things, instead of proclaiming the things God has done and is doing.  We see the problem, but fail to see the answer.  We major on the minor, and minor on the major.  We talk the Word, instead of walk the Word.  What more could we expect from God?  He has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, yet we continually walk as if in need of something. (I Peter 1:3) 

 We need to realize how blessed we truly are.  I see pictures and hear stories of displaced families who, because of war, have had to escape their countries.  They are “nomads” in search of a place of safety where they can pursue a life of purpose.  But for the Grace of God, this could be me.  I see the faces of people who have so little food and water that they just lie down to await death.  But for the Grace of God, this could be me.  I read of the Holocaust and the millions of innocent people exterminated by ruthless leaders.  But for the Grace of God, that could have been me.  When I see the brown fields on the other side of the fence, how can I complain about the imperfect grass that I am standing on? 

 It is time to stop complaining about how bad we think we have it and start declaring how we are truly blessed.  It is time to stop making mountains out of mole hills.  It is time to put away our petition lists and pull out our diary of blessings.  The hard thing for me to grasp is how many Believers are pursuing a touch from God when we already have the full blessings of God.  When are we going to realize the benefits of being part of God’s family?  It is time to stop asking for something, and start living with the blessings we already have.  Believers need to take a day off from carnal reasoning and let faith rinse out their mind.  We need Faith to flush out the contaminants of our consciousness.

 Let us start each day counting our many blessings.  When problems appear, let us compare them with the blessings with which God has blessed us.  Get ready to smile!