“Blessed are the people of whom this is true; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.” [Ps 144:15]
I saved this one to end my November week of blessing. I saved it for last for one reason, this one is corporate. We have seen blessed is the man (person) and we have seen blessed are those. This one, however, speaks of us as a “people,” a group, perhaps a body of believers, or possibly a nation that has turned to God.
To be part of God’s people is one of the greatest of all sources of “How Happy!” blessing. I think everyone carries within them a desire to belong to something greater than themselves. When we come to “the fear of the LORD”—that very first blessing we looked at to begin this blessing week—God does not leave us isolated, struggling alone to find our way in Him. He puts us with others, people of like faith in Christ Jesus. Peter describes it this way …
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.” [1 Peter 2:9-10]
Once we were not a people, now we are the people of God. And blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.
Thank you, Lord, for blessing me with the church. Even with all her faults and failings, I am so much better by being part of the church than if I was standing alone, struggling on my own. I love your church, LORD! How blessed I am to be part of the people of God. Amen.
