*Blessed Be He Who Blessed Us
In this devotional meditation on Ephesians 1:3-4, Herman Hoeksema explores the asymmetrical relationship between God's blessing of us and our blessing of Him, emphasizing that God's blessing is eternally first, causally efficacious, and the foundation for all our responsive worship. The piece exemplifies Hoeksema's pastoral theology, showing how the doctrine of God's sovereign grace issues naturally into the believer's grateful acknowledgment and praise of the Giver of all good.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: according as he hath chosen us in him -- Ephesians 1:3, 4 Blessed be He who blessed us! It cannot escape our attention that the same word is used twice: God blesses us, we bless Him! Yet, there is a profound difference in meaning between the two uses of the word. For, first of all, God's blessing us and our blessing God are not mere reciprocal acts, so that...
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