Wanting A Blessed Life
October 10, 2024
We all want a blessed life. What is it? A solid family, good job, health, lots of friends? One can have those and still not be satisfied and blessed.
Thankfully Jesus taught his disciples, many others around them, and us today through the sermon on the mount. Let’s picture this. Jesus and his disciples went up a mountainside. He sees crowds of people. Some knew much about Jewish tradition, some little. Some knew lots about Jesus, his home town, his family, but not Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God, or what He came to do. His disciples huddled around him. He taught. The crowds listened.
He taught nine beatitudes, nine descriptors of the blessed person. None of them come naturally to mind when we think of a blessed life. His blessings are supernatural.