That title might have intrigued you, but I have been wondering what the whole meaning of saying God bless is really all about.
Often at the end of a conversation between two Christian one says God bless and the other says God bless you too. However, I have been thinking about this. Perhaps I am thinking too deeply on such a small thing. Why do we say God bless when we know full well that we are blessed by God? I could pray in thanksgiving everyday for an hour or better just thanking him for all that he has blessed me with, this is not including the people that I know that have been blessed by God through various things. I just don't understand or know why it is that we say this to one another. Does anyone have any good solid answers on this? I don't think that this is a Biblical principal, or am I wrong?
Can you help me out with this thought process?
A good question indeed, it comes out of the fact that in the early church when they would leave after a service they would have a benediction usually a blessing from someway in the New Testament. we have just shorted it down to God bless in our culture, which I now see lacks the full force of the God breathed blessings for the saints found in scripture.
ReplyDeleteThanks for making me think about that.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. (Galatians 6:18)