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Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart

Matthew 11:6, “And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.”

“Blessed is he who is not offended in Me,” or “Blessed is he who is not offended in this union with Me, or in relationship to Me.”

Here the Lord is speaking specifically about John the Baptist.

But the way He says it–“blessed is he”–includes all of us.

It not only applies to the disciples at that time, but it also opens up a crucial principle in our own experience with the Lord.

The Lord characterizes our inward state as blessed.

He is attributing the inward state of blessedness to our abiding in Him, remaining in union with Him, while He handles us, while He allows circumstantial environments over our lives, while He does what He does over us.

We know that nothing is an accident in the lives of God’s chosen ones.

As the elect we are living under the mighty hand of God.

There is a purpose in the universe over all of us.

God has an ongoing goal over us year after year, month after month, day after day, even moment by moment.

That goal is His Son–that we would enjoy His Son and be conformed to His Son and manifest His Son in our mortal flesh, so that we could utter the same testimony that Paul uttered, “For to me, to live is Christ” (Phil. 1:21).

With this goal, with this view, the Lord says, “And blessed is he who is not offended in Me.”

In your union with Him, in your relationship with Him, in how He is handling you, in how He is allowing things to be the way they are with you, He adds the word “blessed.”

This means happy.

Until Tomorrow

With A Shepherd’s Love,

Pastor Jackson

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