What Does it Mean to be Blessed?

What Does it Mean to be “Blessed?”  The life of Moses has an answer to this question.  Moses was raised in the Palace of Egypt surrounded by all the wealth and power and prestige of being a part of the Royal family of that great nation – but, that is not why we may say that Moses was blessed.  In fact, at 40 years old, Moses lost all of this.  A sudden calamity meant he had to leave Egypt and all the benefits of his place in the Palace.  From the Palace, Moses was forced to support himself by raising sheep!  This was of great insult to his Egyptian upbringing, Shepherds were despised and looked down upon – most were slaves.

For 40 years he experienced life at it best – but then he was humbled over the next 40 years to endure life at its hardest.  Now certainly from a “worldly” point of view, we may think this was a demotion in life for Moses, but it was not, in fact, the events of these 40 years were for Moses the re-education of his affections – to teach him to love God more than power, prestige and possessions.  As a result – for the next 40 years of his life – Moses experienced God as nobody else ever known Him.

After all of these diverse experiences, Moses became an expert at defining what it means to be blessed.  We find Moses’ conclusion of the matter in Deuteronomy 33.  Moses said the greatest blessing in life is to know God Himself, and then he asked the people that he was now leading in verse 29, “Who is like you? A People saved by The Lord?”

We are blessed when we are saved!  It is worth letting that word sink in - - - “Saved!”  In Christ, you are not left with merely a chance at being saved, but by faith in His work on the Cross – you are saved.  Romans puts your new condition in Christ like this: “There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”  That is what it means to be blessed.