After you’ve gone 4 months without posting on a blog, how do you get started back?  4 months…went by like 4 weeks.  School started, and then….wow.  So now I face the question of what to write in my first post back, knowing that I should do it now…especially since a link to it has been posted on our new website.  So here goes…

I’m blessed.  Last semester I taught through Ephesians on Thursday nights and there was a phrase from the book that I walked around with for most of the semester.  It was never far from my mind, and it came to me over and over again.  But as the semester ended, Christmas came and went, and another semester began, the phrase just eased its way out of my consciousness, and I haven’t thought specifically about it until this past week. 

This is it:  in Christ, we have been given every spiritual blessing. Paul says at the beginning of the letter:  “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. . . . In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us.â€?

So when things get hectic and life gets busier than it should be, it would be wise to remember that we’re already blessed in Christ. Only then can we rest deeply in His comfort and His goodness, and see our life and our work through fresh eyes. And because we’ve been given every spiritual blessing in Christ, we don’t have to work to make God happy.  Instead, we work because God is already happy with me in Christ.

Every spiritual blessing.  Available in Christ.  Blessed beyond imagination.

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