"Light Reflection"

"God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause His face to shine upon us. Selah." (Psalms 67:1) The more I think about it, the more I realize how God uses those that are His to minister to those that are not. If you are one of His children, then He is merciful unto you, and you know it; there is absolutely no doubt in your mind that God's mercy has been poured out upon you, day in and day out; you know it because you are in fellowship with Him still, even though you have messed things up, over and over, He has not cut you off. Do you know why that is? I hope that you do, because there is only one reason that you are a child of God, and it's not because of your performance as a kid of the Kingdom; it's because of Jesus Christ, the King of the Kingdom! John gives us this testimony in his opening remarks of his Gospel Message, saying, "He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name." (John 1:10-12) Now as far as being blessed, there really is no easy way to describe it, besides just to know that you are; but what ever you do, don't measure your being blessed by what you have, as in worldly possessions, because those are only temporary things, here today and gone tomorrow. The word "bless" shown above has the primary meaning of, "to bend the knees, TO KNEEL DOWN"; and then it goes on to say, "The primary notion lies in breaking, breaking down." The general idea, as I see it, is that we are blessed beyond compare; so much so, that if everything should be stripped away, we would still be blessed, because there is no comparison between what we have been freely given and what we might have in this world. I really think that is key to our understanding of the Gospel Message; because we cannot loose something that we did not earn; and truth be told, if everything we had were to be taken away, the last thing standing would be all that we ever needed in the first place. That is pretty much the notion in "breaking down", because when you break it all down, the blessing that we have been blessed is not shown in blessings, it is shown in suffering...
"So the Word became human and made His home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen His glory, the glory of the Father's one and only Son. John testified about Him when he shouted to the crowds, "This is the one I was talking about when I said, 'Someone is coming after me who is far greater than I am, for He existed long before me.'" From His abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another. For the law was given through Moses, but God's unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God, is near to the Father's heart. He has revealed God to us." (John 1:14-18) NLT