Continued
from the last episode:
Preamble: Knowing and understanding what the
blessing is will definitely enhance our Christian life. Over the years there
has been a misconception or misnomer about what the blessing of God is, and as a
result many who are blessed are thinking they are not and many who are not are
basking in great fallacious delusion thinking they have arrived. In this topic,
we are going to painstakingly unfold the meaning of the blessing of God.
Text
Of Interest:
“The
blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.”
Provb
10:22 (KJV)
Let’s continue to unfold the spiritual
positions of the man that has received the message or gospel by faith.
Receiving the message by faith and believing in it makes someone to be declared
righteous before God. That is the righteous nature of God is give unto him or
her, he or she stands before God guiltless. In this case what happens next is
that he or she is accepted in the beloved according to this verse,“To the praise of the glory of his grace,
wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.” (Eph 1:6). It is
interesting to know that the fall of man separated man from God and as a result
of that man had no place in God, there was a total spiritual incommunicado between
God and man. Though there was this spiritual separation between man and God,
the nature of God which is Grace could not let man go, grace continue to search
ways man could be united with his maker. The grace of God that came to man was
the gospel, the gospel was preached to Abraham and as many that lived in the
beginning was the gospel of grace of God (Titus 2:11).
The testimony of the gospel was that
they believed in God by faith in the gospel which unveils what the grace of God
has offered to them. As they believed, the resounding testimony is that they work
and walk with God. The walk or work with God here means that literally they
associated with God in all their dealings and there was a cooperation between
them and God. This indicates that they heard from God and have interactions
with Him, which suggests that they were in close rapport with God. This kind of
association cannot be established on the physical realm, it takes place on the
spiritual realm and as a matter of fact it means that they had spiritual
relationship with God. Therefore, one accepting the gospel just as Abraham did mean
that he has paved way for his or her spiritual connection with God to be
established, and by so doing, there is an acceptance of him or her in the bosom
of God.
So, the declaration of righteousness
upon an individual helps to ingratiate him or her into a spiritual position
which man has lost as a result of the fall. Righteousness therefore, empowers
one to be accepted in God, it means that if God has accepted you, no matter the
rejection you might face out there in the world, your case is different. The
only place one can be rejected and it tells on him or her so much is in the
place of God, if you don’t have a place or position in God, you
should be sorry for yourself. Being accepted in the beloved means one is very
pleasing to God, no matter what! It doesn’t matters what people’s judgment is
or what their perspective about you suggests, the judgment of God stands.
This is what the blessing of God is,
that one has been accepted in God as a result of the declaration of
righteousness on him or her. This typifies freedom, I mean one is free from any
accusing finger, be it from the devil or his human agents. It means as you
stand in front of God you do that without any sense of guilt and can boldly say
what you want to say to God and to man with easy (Heb 13:6). You should not
have any doubt that your statement or voice will not be heard because of one
thing or the other, because you know that you have been accepted and this
acceptance is not based on what you have done rightly or how assiduously you
have worked hard to be right before God.
This is not a fruit of your work or
labour in observing one rule or other, just that you believed the gospel and
this gift was given to you. Wonderful! You are accepted no one can reject you,
whether they like it or not (Jn 8:4 – 12), He that was supposed to reject you
did not do so, who then can do it?
Therefore, you walk out with all sense of boldness not minding what the
environments around you say, you can boldly talk to any situation or condition
and they will immediately listen to you. You can command any evil or demon out
and they will listen and obey you without tug of war in between. Just because
you have been accepted in the beloved!
These are the things the spiritual
blessings entail in a life of anyone that has accepted and believed the gospel.
His spiritual position is reestablished and he or she has the right to exercise
his or her position in God and begin to undo anything that he or she sees as
very odd in his or her life.
To be continued….
Till I come your way again, keep on
basking in the Arena of Indubitable Truth!
Chukwuemeka C. Asiegbu
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