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Are You Blessed?

The 2012 christian hit song 10,000 Reasons by Matt Redman puzzled me greatly with its first line- 'Bless the Lord, oh my soul'. 'How can we bless the creator of the universe who has everything?' I thought. Up until then, the word 'blessing' to me just meant having God's favour, being prosperous, and fortunate. All materialistic things- good health, financial steadiness, talents etc. 

But the word 'bless' in the bible has three different meanings 

i)To speak well of
ii)To consecrate
iii) To worship

To bless the Lord means to praise Him and worship His holy name. So to bless someone means to praise them. Which implies that the commonest phrase "God bless you" can also mean that you need to have a character like Job's so that even God will boast about you to the devil. 

Wait don't panic. This characteristic isn't a thousand miles away. For God to boast about you, you just need to reflect Jesus in your life. When God sees you, He needs to see His son, whom He is proud of. 

When Jacob was blessed by the angel he was limping in pain as his hip was out of joint. He was given a new name 'Israel' and he was the father of that entire nation. But with that new name came a new limitation in his life. The past year definitely made many of us doubt if we were blessed, if we were under God's protection etc. Many of us were hurt physically, many felt the pain of the loss of a loved one, and many struggled to hold on to sanity in isolation. But through all the affliction we faced we were refined like gold to become pure and much stronger than before. Like Jacob, through this pain God wants to bless us, give us a new name. 


P.S Here is the link for the song mentioned above: https://youtu.be/XtwIT8JjddM

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