Spiritual blessings are important in our lives
Greetings parishioners of this wonderful community of Steemchurch, I hope your day is blessed.
Spiritual blessings are not of this world, and refer to eternal life, because they are eternal in their nature. They are received from heaven and by a specific and giving act of God for those who seek them by faith.
He who seeks finds and what he asks receives. So spiritual blessings must be sought through prayer and practice of the Word, because they have to do with the reception and maturation of the new celestial and divine nature that we have through faith in Christ, especially as to the transformation and sanctification of our character through the full development of the spiritual virtues that are part of the character of Jesus Christ himself.
Then these blessings are received in our union with Jesus. That is why we are encouraged by Jesus to seek not the food that perishes, but the one that subsists for eternal life, and that we can find only in Him.
No one should be foolish to the point of thinking that he does not need material goods, especially those necessary for the sustenance of the body. Jesus himself affirmed that the Father knows that we need these material things, but He also said that it is those who do not know God who have their hearts naturally disposed only for these things.
The Christian must not allow himself to be dominated by any of them, and make them his objective of life, but only the kingdom of God and his justice; knowing that the Lord will add these things to those who are faithful to Him while they strive to work exhaustively in what they have been called by God to do in this world in newness of life.
It is said by the apostle Paul that spiritual blessings are obtained in the heavenly regions in Christ Jesus, namely, they come from heaven and they come from our Lord Jesus Christ, in whom they meet, and from whom all these blessings come.
That is why these blessings are exclusive to those who believe in Christ and who are united to Him. They are blessings for His saints.
Spiritual blessings are given to men by the act of God in Jesus Christ, as planned in the eternal counsel of their own divine will, and are concretized by the operation of the Holy Spirit in the very life of Christians.
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all the spiritual blessings in the heavenly regions in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless before Him in love;
and predestined to be adopted his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will "(Eph 1,3-5)
Paul blesses God for having blessed us with the granting of all sorts of spiritual blessings in the heavenly regions in Christ, not by our merits or election, but by His own will, by which He chose us to be holy and blameless before Him in love. .
It is not possible, then, to be sanctified, according to God's purpose, without these spiritual blessings that must be sought by faith.
They are designed by God to prepare Christians for heaven, as He had planned before the foundation of the world.
That is why we should not allow our attention and affections to be focused on earthly things, but on those things for which we are sanctified in Christ.
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