Charles Spurgeon once said,
“Every blessing that comes from God is sent with the same message, ‘And more to follow.’ ‘I forgive you your sins, but there’s more to follow.’ ‘I justify you in the righteousness of Christ, but there’s more to follow.’ ‘I adopt you into my family, but there’s more to follow.’ ‘I educated you for heaven, but there’s more to follow.’ ‘I give you grace upon grace, but there’s more to follow.’ ‘I have helped you even to old age, but there’s still more to follow.’ ‘I will uphold you in the hour of death, and as you are passing into the world of spirits, my mercy shall still continue with you, and when you land in the world to come there shall still be more to follow.’”
A blessed person is one who has experienced God’s favour (blessing) and therefore has a deep sense of well-being, even as they live life in this fallen world and sometimes deal with its harshest realities.
Blessing – it is the Lord’s delight to do not merely to be. This morning in Psalm 128 we read that the Lord blesses His people, but also of the context where we the blessings will come.
These are covenant blessings… not secured by our actions, but by the action of He who made the covenant with us; and yet we will not enjoy these blessings without being the people family here described.
May God bless this psalm not only to the parents who present their child for baptism this morning, but to each of us through Jesus Christ the Lord.