Remember Jesus Said We Are Blessed!

John 20:28-29 - Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!" 29 Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed."  NASU 

• We Are Blessed 

The reason Jesus says, "We are blessed" is we believe in Him but have never seen Him. Thomas was a disciple of Jesus' while on earth and they traveled together.

Jesus told the disciples many times that He was going to die and resurrect but Thomas and the other disciples must not have been listening when Jesus taught those lessons (Mark 8:31, 9:31, 10:32-34).
 
Well, actually they were listening but they didn't understand His lesson and they were afraid to ask for clarification.
 
What runs through your mind when you think about being Blessed by God?
 
When was the last time you sat down and did nothing but think about how blessed you are because of God or because of your faith in Jesus?
 
It is easy to forget how blessed we are because of our faith in Jesus. When you consider the blessing you have because of your faith please don't equate them to everything you have physically on this earth.
 
Our faith in Jesus has unlocked many spiritual blessings that we will receive upon our physical death and the beginning of our new life in Heaven. 

• We Are At A Loss 

When it comes to being able to concentrate on what life in Heaven is really going to be like we are at a loss of information. What we do know is mostly found in the book of Revelation. 
 
Rev. 21:1-4 says, "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away… And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, 4 and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away."
 
What have we learned?
 
1. There will be a New Heaven and New Earth because the previous ones have passed away.

2. We are going to be a part of the New Jerusalem, a holy city.
 
3. God is going to dwell in this city among His people.

4. We will never have to experience anything that would make us feel like we did when we mourned, cried or experienced death while on earth. Those things have all passed away with the destruction of the old earth.

5. We will never be separated from God which is what is meant by never experiencing death. Death is a separation and we will not ever be separated from God again.
 
I hope that you have been encouraged today to realize you have been blessed by God because you're a believer in Jesus Christ.
 
Your faith in Christ has brought you plenty of blessings and that is not me saying that, that is Jesus saying it.
 
Let me close with this: Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed."
 
Go and share your blessing with someone today.
 
Think About These:
 
Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death.
 
What is faith but to believe what you do not see?
 
Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next.
 
Stay Pumped,
 
Gary A. Serago

Minister of God's Word