How To Be Blessed

Words.


Four year old Boy is communicating quite well. Two year old is still grunting or whimpering, but is slowly acquiring more words.


“heh’Met,” he says. The name of his favorite Lego guy, Emmet. 

Until Christmas, when he wanted something, we’d tell him, “Say please!” and he’d raise his hands to the heavens and mutter or squeak something to the effect of, “eeeeeehhh”. But we noticed at Christmas that he’s abandoned the hand-raising and actually said, “Please.”


It was a bit sad to note later that he’d moved on because it was so adorable, but we also celebrated his growth in learning to communicate.

Eugene Peterson says, “Language is spoken into us, we learn language only as we are spoken to. We are plunged at birth into a sea of language.” . . . “All speech is answering speech. We were all spoken to before we spoke.” {Working the Angles}
Timothy Keller, in his book “Prayer” says in response, “Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. We should plunge ourselves into the sea of God’s language, the Bible. We should listen, study, think, reflect, and ponder the Scriptures until there is an answering response in our hearts and minds.”

Babies begin with cries, and learn to communicate through communion with their parents.


We begin our relationship with God and we must learn His heart through communing with Him. Through being immersed in His words.

In the beginning God spoke and His word created. Earth’s beginning. And ours.

The dictionary tells us that being blessed means to be consecrated, sacred, holy, divinely or supremely favored, blissfully happy or contented.

The first {In the beginning} prayer in God’s book of prayers, the Psalms, tells us how to be blessed.


1. Don’t hang out with people who are going the wrong way. (Psalm 1:1)
2. Hang out with God and love His word. (
Psalm 1:2)
3. Meditate on His word day and night. (
Psalm 1:2)


Another first comes to mind: The first commandment. Matthew 22:37-38


First in the Bible. First in the Psalms. First on the stone Tablets. First in your heart.


Keeping God always first is the way to being blessed.


And there in that first Psalm is the guarantee of prosperity. The kind that truly blesses. Psalm 1:3


Dear friends, may you begin your day, your week, your year always enjoying God, listening to Him, and responding. This is essentially prayer.


And may you prosper greatly in this new year!


Psalm 1 (highlights mine)
Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.

3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.
4 Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.


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