Every spiritual blessing

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. – Ephesians 1.3-6

Blessed be God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He has already blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Wow. Just wow.

A lot of us may not see much in the way of physical or earthly blessings. We may not have much of what world would call a blessing. Even Christians can get caught in the trap of saying we are only blessed when we are see physical success and good health and things going our way. There is nothing wrong with giving thanks to God for those things, but they are not a sign of what is really a blessing.

The real proof of our salvation is the eternal spiritual blessings both now and for all eternity. Of course we have the assurance of our heavenly eternity in God’s presence. Now though we have the spiritual blessings of love and hope and peace and rest and assurance and the knowledge that we have all that because Jesus is with us day by day by day.

It is these spiritual blessings that get us through each day in this broken and troubled world. My need is to focus on these spiritual blessings and not on the broken world around me.