The Blessedness of God

I just preached my first official sermon last week but praise the Lord that i did not die on the pulpit..haha..i was feeling nervous, anxious and there are lots of butterflies in my tummy..haha..and after my sermon, i had stomach cramp..what a great day..haha..but i felt glad and happy i made my first sermon, the best thing was the blessed assurance that comes from God that gave me strength to proclaim His words..

Blessedness means happy..and this happiness is different from what the world has to offer..it is the happiness that God gives eventhough we are in the lion's den..and in both the Old and New Testament, we can find many verses that relates to the blessedness of God..

Deuteronomy 33:29
Blessed are you, O Israel, who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, who is the shield of your help and the sword of your majesty.

Job 1:20-21
Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshipped. He said, "Naked I come from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there, the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord."

Pslam 128:1
Now blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in His ways.

Revelation 22:12-14
Behold, I am coming quickly and My reward is with Me, to render to every men according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city,

Jesus Himself also talked about the blessedness of God in the Sermon of the Mount, Matthew 5:1-12.

From all these verses, we can conclude that the happiness that is eternal and everlasting can only come from God and God alone through His ways. We have always been looking for happiness through fulfilling our own desires but that kind of happiness don't last long. After that, we would long for more but we are never satisfied with it. This is because that satisfaction only come from the Living Water that never runs dry.

Praise the Lord for that. May we come into His presence daily seeking Him to be filled with eternal joy.