Blessings

Do you ever feel caught between two ways of living? Caught between a life that longs for the blessing of the world and the life that longs for the blessing of God?

The world blesses glamor, physical prowess, brilliance, efficiency, beauty, and money. Jesus does not bless these things. Jesus blesses mercy, peacemaking, righteousness, and purity of heart, among other things.

We need to learn which blessings to ultimately seek. We need to learn to ultimately value the blessings that Jesus valued over against the blessings that the world values.

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It’s hard to know what to feel, except sadness and disgust. It’s hard to know what to think except, “Why?”

Why the murders? Why did a 22 year old guy want to kill people? Why, for that matter, do we live as if something equally tragic doesn’t occur every day in our nation? Do we simply feel powerless to affect any change, whatsoever—in ourselves and in our culture? Do we simply live overwhelmed by the sheer immensity of the violence that we see on TV, at the movies, hear on the news?

O, how God must weep.