March is upon us already! It’s hard to believe, but we’re only about a month away from Palm Sunday and Easter! If you haven’t already, please mark down that we’re going to be having a Good Friday service at 6:30pm on March 29th at Harper Park Middle School. It is a wonderful way to prepare our hearts to rightly celebrate Easter.

And as we march our way through Jesus’s life, we won’t quite get to Jesus’s death and resurrection by Easter. But over the next 4 weeks, we are going to get to Jesus’s famous Sermon on the Mount. This week, we’ll be just taking the first 12 verses of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, looking at the Beatitudes.

Now most of us have a passing familiarity with these words of blessedness. But I would bet that most of us have taken them to a list of things that we ought to do and be. We need to be poor in spirit, meek, and pure of heart. But I would encourage you to focus on the word that is repeated over and over again: “Blessed”. To prepare for worship this Sunday, I encourage you to spend time meditating on what it means to be blessed. I’d also encourage you to spend some time with the standard Old Testament beatitude found in Numbers 6:24-26. Hopefully, when we come to the Word this Sunday, we’re going to see how we are blessed in Christ Jesus far more than we can possibly imagine. See you then!