Building the Blessings
Matthew 5
If you want to build a structure that will last, you need the proper footings and foundation. It is also true of building a structure that God can continually bless. The footing that we discovered on Mother’s Day is the fact that all blessings come from God James 1:17. Anything else is just temporal and not truly a blessing. In addition, God yearns and desires to bless us Luke 11:13. If you try to build without the proper footing, your building will crumble under the load.
Once you have the proper footing, the foundation is just as critical. The foundation of the building that will hold God’s blessings is the fact that true blessings are built upon the Word of God. When you decide to walk away from God’s Word, you willingly choose to walk away from God’s blessings.
Once the footings and foundation are in place, we can then begin to build the structure that will house the blessings. For this structure, we find the blueprints in Matthew chapter 5. The structural framing is in the first instruction. Blessed are those who are poor in spirit, for they shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Poor in spirit means that we come to a point where we empty our selves of ourselves and we become poor of our own desires or spirit. When we are full of ourselves, there is no room for God and because He is a perfect gentleman, He will not force His way in. God tells us that He will bless those who have a broken and contrite heart Ps. 34:18, 51:17. This is also the key to heaven because we must come to a point where we realize there is nothing we can do for forgiveness of our sins except to cry out to Christ and only He can wash away our sins and guilt granting us access to the Father. Phil. 2:1-8 also informs us that this is the very mind of Christ. Christ emptied Himself and allowed the Father complete authority in His life.
After we have the framing, we need the roof to our structure. This is found in the next verse which says blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted. God does not want us to walk around being emotional basket cases but rather mourning because of our sins and the sin of the world. This is shown to us in the life of David, II Sam. 12, and is the reason why God calls him a man after God’s own heart. David was a man of repentance. Mourning should be our response to sin, James 4:1-10, but we will not mourn if we are full of spirit. True mourning comes through brokenness. The choice of the structure that you build is yours and yours alone. So, choose wisely.