YOU ARE BLESSED

Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl.  Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.  Matthew 5:15 NIV

If you are “poor in spirit”, if you “mourn”, if you are “meek”, if you “hunger and thirst for righteousness”, if you are “merciful”, if you are “pure in heart”, if you are a “peacemaker”, and if you “are persecuted because of righteousness” then you are “blessed”. 

If you have received Jesus as your Savior, then your lamp has been lighted.  Don’t put it under a bowl for no one to see.  You have become the Righteousness of God through Christ Jesus.  Don’t dim the Light that is in you by complaining and grumbling about the economy, your neighbor, your boss, your employees, your children, your parents, your school, your church, your car, your health, your age, your looks, your house, the heat, the cold, the rain, the drought, and on and on and on and on. 

Yours is “the kingdom of heaven”, you are “comforted”, you have “inherited the earth”, you are “filled”, you have been “shown mercy”, you have “seen God”, you are a child of God”, and – yes again - yours “is the kingdom of heaven”.  You are “blessed”. 

If you have received Jesus as your Savior, then your lamp has been lighted.  You are “now” a new creation.  The eternal Life, and Love and Light of our resurrected Savior have lighted your lamp. 

Be thankful by remembering how blessed you are!  You were dead in your trespasses, but now you are alive for evermore through Christ Jesus.  You are blessed. 

Father God, Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, help us to be thankful rather than complaining and grumbling about things that might just be a little uncomfortable.  Bless our words and deeds to Your Glory forever and ever in the name of Jesus we ask it.  Amen and so be it.