OUR TALENTS ARE THE MARK OF GOD'S BLESSINGS
Q: I would greatly appreciate it if you would explain what it means to be blessed. When many believers say they are blessed, they imply that they have found favor with God. Does this mean that God favors some over others? Have the favored pleased God more than others? Isn't this contradictory to what is stated in the Book of Job? Fleming James' book, "The Personalities of the Old Testament," Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939, has a chapter on the writer of the Book of Job. On page
533, James states "As a matter of fact, prosperity and adversity have no necessary connection with goodness and wickedness. God's dispensations towards individuals cannot be interpreted as rewards or punishments." -- J from Wilmington, N.C.
A: To be blessed is to be given more than you deserve by God and also to know that you have been given more than you deserve. To be blessed is to know that God has touched your life.
One hard part about your question is the issue of relative blessedness. To have God touch our life does not mean that God touches every person in the same way. Our various talents are the marks of God's blessing, but we are not all gifted in the same way and to the same degree. The common and shared fact of our blessedness is that we are all made equally in the
image of God. This means that we are all equally holy. We are not all equally blessed, but we are all equally holy...READ MORE
