But in the doing.
To be blessed is to be deeply happy. Fulfilled. Content. Living the eternal life that Jesus promised—not merely a life that lasts for eternity, but a life that is fueled by eternity.
If there’s one lingering handicap Modernism has left us with in our attempts to follow the way of Jesus, it is that we still believe that it is sufficient to know a lot about him. To know his teachings. To know about his miracles. To know some theology about his death and resurrection.
All our knowledge has relegated us to being religious rather than spiritual people. Spiritual people are the real actors. That is, people who do not pretend (as merely religious people often do), but rather people who genuinely act. They do the actions of Jesus, not out of a sense of obligation or duty or forced imitation, but because it simply and naturally flows out of them. Perhaps even with very little awareness on their part.
If there’s one potential gift that Postmodernism offers us in our attempts to follow the way of Jesus, it is the desire for experience. The longing (and the very real possibility) of moving beyond head knowledge to street knowledge of Jesus. Where in a thousand little ways he does things, and we do things, and afterward, at the end of the day, we breathe a deep sigh because we realize how truly blessed we are.
