What does it mean to bless God? How is a believer to bless the one who is all-sufficient? By examining Ephesians 1:3-4, Spurgeon highlights the truth that all can bless God if they approach Him with the right heart posture.
God doesn’t need our blessings, but He still desires that we offer them. According to Spurgeon, we can bless the Lord in several ways, including praising God through songs and prayers, spreading His gospel through evangelism, and doing good to fellow Christians.
But what should fuel our praise? Spurgeon urges us to fix our gaze on God for who He is. He especially underscores the fatherhood of God and the sonship of Christ. Meditating on glories and mysteries of the Godhead, and the relationship into which we are drawn through the gospel, is a powerful catalyst for worship.
Spurgeon also asks his listeners to reflect on their past and remember the great mercies of God. When we have a right understanding of His mercies, and have full assurance and intense delight in them, we cannot help but bless God. Has He not saved you from your sins, given you a new heart, adopted you into His family, and prepared a place for you in Heaven? God’s abundant blessings are all around if we just take the time to look.
The greatest blessing we will ever receive is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He paid the debt we could not afford and bore the wrath of God on our behalf so that we might have eternal life with God. “If Christ is mine, all blessings in heavenly places are mine.” God’s blessings are countless, but they find their zenith in Christ.
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I seem, to myself, to be talking very drily of things that ought to be swimming in a sea of joy and delight. Beloved, do not let my faint words rob my Lord of any of his glory. He has done such great things for you; bless his name. We cannot stand up, and ask for instruments of music with which to sound his praise; but we can sit still, and each one say, “Blessed be his name! It is all true; he has blessed me; I know that he has. He has blessed me, with a liberal hand, with all spiritual blessings. He has blessed me just where I wanted blessing, where I was poorest in spiritual things. I could make my way in business, but I could not make my way in grace; so he has blessed me with all spiritual blessings; and he has made the garments all the dearer because of the wardrobe in which he has hung them. He has given me these royal things in Christ; and as I look to my dear Lord, and see what there is for me stored up in him, I prize each thing the more because it is in him. Come, Holy Spirit, set our hearts on fire with blessing and praise to God for all the great things that he has done for us!”
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