The LORD bless you from Zion!
May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem
all the days of your life!
May you see your children's children!
Peace be upon Israel!
God blesses us! When people have good things happen to them they often take credit for those things. They like to claim the good and blame others for the bad. So, God often gets blamed when things go bad. They like to say, “Why did God let this happen? Or, “Where was God?” But, when things go good we seldom here people say, “That was so gracious of God to provide that!” Or, “Wow, look what God just did!” No, we are seldom in the state of mind to give God credit for the good and for us to take credit for the bad. Yet, that is often the reasons. In the above psalm we read that God wants to bless those who are making their way to Zion (Jerusalem). This is known as a song of the ascents; meaning, a song that was song when the Jewish people made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem for Passover. It was song as a worship song to God. The song ends with a statement that asks God to cause those who are seeking God in worship to be blessed by God. It would do us well to remember that everything good we have comes from God:
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
We can rejoice and should rejoice when good things happen to us. But, we should rejoice that God is the catalyst for that good and not we, ourselves.
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