“The LORD bless you
and keep you..."
{Numbers 6:24} (NIV1984)
These
words of blessing, that are to spoken by all of us who are the priests of the
Most High God, begin with the LORD. To be blessed is to be happy. Our Lord
Jesus came and sat down on a mountain and spoke about being blessed, about
being truly happy. We use the word blessed loosely, as we describe some
temporary state of happiness or good ‘fortune’. But true blessing comes from
the LORD and only from the LORD!
To be kept by the LORD, to belong to Him
forever, is a blessing. The apostle John states that we who are born again will
be kept safe from the evil one by the Lord Jesus (1 Jn 5:18), and the apostle
Paul was convinced that nothing could separate us from the love of God that is
in Christ Jesus our Lord (Ro 8:39)!
Psalm 121:7-8 describes it as, “The Lord will
keep you from all harm — he will watch over your life; the Lord will
watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.”
What a
blessed state to be in - kept by the LORD! Oh friend, we know this
blessing in our lives, do we not? Whom can we bless today by speaking these
words to them?
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