Luke 14:14

“Blessings Always” is as familiar benediction. I mean it when I declare
“Blessings Always,” for it is in complete agreement with our Saviour’s declaration in Luke 14:14, “And thou shall be blest; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.”

“Blessings Always” carries a lot of positive witness. “Blessings to everyone,” all of the time! In Jesus’ Parable of the Ambitious Guest, everyone is invited to share all of Christ’s eternal benefits, whether “poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind,” in verse 13, all are welcomed.

Drawing on the ministry of Shades of Grace United Methodist Church’s mission, of which Depews Chapel United Methodist is privileged to support, in obedience to growing Christ’s Kingdom, we lovingly share to serve with “the least, the last, the lost, and the lonely.”

Always being a blessing, with what you have to give to Christ:
B – Body (your health, protection, and strength)
L – Labor (your work, income and security)
E – Emotional (your joy, peace, and hope)
S – Social (your love, family and friends)
S – Spiritual (your salvation, faith, and grace)

Everything we purpose to do for Jesus Christ has eternal consequences, and eternal benefit! In other words, as Jesus taught, in Luke 6:38, “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over.” “Jesus didn’t come into this world to take your joy, but to give you His,” it’s been said.

And as Jim Elliot, a missionary martyred for his faith in Equator said, “He is no fool to give up what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.”

During this week, emphasizing all things romantic, please keep including things of one’s own spiritual “heart of hearts,” as Jesus teaches we who seek a more loving world, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good,” in Luke 6:45, “for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.”

Loving everyone, blessing everyone, is something everyone can do, for “blest are they,“ Jesus said in Luke 11:28, “that hear the word of the God, and keep it.”