Blessed by God
In Matthew 16:17, Jesus answered and said to Peter, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.“
“Blessed are you!” That just rings with delight to my ears. It is nice when people wish a blessing upon us or when we tell someone they are blessed, but when it comes directly from God, my heart melts with gladness from the warmth and sincerity of our Lord Jesus Christ. The angels rejoice when just ONE sinner turns to God forsaking all of their past ways. As soon as someone can see that Jesus is THE Christ, the Son of the living God, and receives Him into their life, God immediately blesses that person. Many people and denominations try to add to God’s word. They say in order to be saved and blessed by God, you must believe in Jesus AND do something else whether it is baptism, join their church, not eat meat, not drink wine, give to charities, wear pants or not wear pants, wear makeup or not wear makeup and the list can go on and on. I get a headache just thinking about it. Why do we allow Satan to use us as a tool to keep the lost away from God? Jesus said the will of the Father is you believe on He who He has sent. He did not have a grocery list of things that needed to be done for us to be saved. As soon as we acknowledge Jesus is the Christ, God delivers us from where we once were and blesses us because of our faith and trust in Him and Him alone.