God’s Blessing, Sure and Constant

Thy blessing is upon Thy people. Ps. 3:9 God's blessing is His creative Word of good-will over us. One who blesses, according to the picturesque literal significance of the original Hebrew, speaks a good word over him that is blessed, whether it be in the form of a subtly mere wish, as we frequently do with respect to one another, or in the form of a prophetic reading from the counsel of God, as the old and dying patriarchs did over their sons. Peculiarly divine is the power to bless. Man's...