October 8.
Picture Of A Saint

Psalms 1:1

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

This is a fascinating passage. At first, it appeared that the saint of the writer was sleeping on the job. In most cases whenever you run into any blessings, the blessings come at the end but never at the beginning. Before a diploma, you must first finish school. Before retirement, you must first work. The blessings normally come at the end. But this Psalmist was so excited that he issued out blessings at the beginning. Saints are like that. We actually get our blessings on the front end. When we accepted Christ, He gave us the package deal up front. Most of us just don’t know it. We think we have to wait and wait and wait to be blessed. But I’m already blessed. When I accepted Christ as my personal savior, He gave me right then everything I needed. He just knows how to issue it out at a given time. Picture a saint as a blessed person.

I like it because God himself uses math differently from the way we use it. God counts differently from the way we count. Man says one plus one plus one equals three. God says one plus one plus one equals one – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. We say two multiplied by five equals ten. The Lord says two multiplied by five equals 5, 000. Two fish multiplied by five loaves of bread fed 5000 men plus women and children.

We say in order to get you must add. The Lord says, “No, in order to get you must divide.” The rich young ruler asked, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” The Lord told him to go and sell all he had and divide it among the poor. We say in order to get up you’ve got to go up. The Lord says, “No the way up is down. The way to become rich is to become poor.” Jesus came down for us to go up. He became disgraced for us to have amazing grace.