I’ve never liked saying, “Bless you” when someone sneezes or whatever. People often think I’m rude because of it. However, the way I always thought about it was that God is the only one who can bless so who am I to say I’m “blessing” someone. Recently, though, I heard BLESS* used as an acrostic. (Anyone who knows me knows that I love acrostics anyway.) And that kind of BLESS I can do and so can you.

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” (John 15:13 NIV). Shortly after Jesus gave these instructions to His disciples He laid down His life for those He loved. His heart was broken by the effects of sin. In the aftermath of Jesus’s death and resurrection, and the gifting of the Holy Spirit, the gospel took off like wild fire. Jesus’s disciples wanted the world to know about His great love.