Who Is Blessed???

So the poor have hope,
and injustice shuts its mouth.

"Blessed is the man whom God corrects;
so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

For he wounds, but he also binds up;
he injures, but his hands also heal.

Job 5:16-18 (NIV)

This is so awesome, Even When God injures, He seeks to bless the one He injures?? And that's Love?? And when the poor in Zimbabwe have hope, injustices that comes from the corrupt government shuts its mouth? Wow!

How less we really know God! We look at the materially less fortunate and think we are more blessed than them? But Job challenges us by suggesting that a God corrected pygmy living in a hut within the Congolese jungle could be more blessed than someone who lives in the mansions of Nyarutarama and yet is not corrected by God?

We clearly need to understand the true definition of "being blessed" Otherwise, when we ask God to bless us, we are not actually blessed if the package doesn't include being corrected by God to do what He judges to be correct! And the grace we proudly sing becomes a myth.

A definition of blessings:

• To walk according to the law of the LORD (Psalm 119:1) irrespective of where you live
  

Or

• To comfortably live in the mansions of Nyarutarama and not be mindful of those whose houses are demolished by the flood.

You Chose!