“God Bless You”

“He literally died!”  “She loves soft pretzels!”  “I haven’t seen them in forever!” We throw words around as if they have no meaning. We play it off, calling it hyperbole. Hyperbole has been normalized, and the extreme has become expected. And the price we pay is that words – actual words and what they actually mean – lose their meaning and the significance they are meant to carry. So, because we’re so casual with the phrase “bless you,” even using it as a Pavlovian response to a sneeze, when Scripture talks about God “blessing” his people, many of us don’t actually understand exactly what God wants to do for us. This week, we examine arguably the most important Blessing in the Bible in order to recapture our understanding of God’s character and his desire for his people.