“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in Heavenly places in Christ” (Ephesians 1:3).

Janice was having a miserable day. It seemed like one of those days when, if something could possibly go wrong, it did! Traffic was so heavy that she was three minutes late to work. Her toothache was back, and she was not happy with her hair that day. As she sat at her desk to take her first phone call, her favorite necklace broke, and several pieces of her jewelry rolled all over the carpet. Of course her first telephone call was from a dissatisfied customer who complained about the product. It seemed like everything was going wrong! She just simply felt miserable. As she reached into her purse to get a cough drop, there was her small New Testament. Taking just a second from her work, she opened her New Testament, and what she spotted was the verse that you read today from Ephesians 1:3. Yes, God indeed had blessed her with all spiritual blessings in Heavenly places. She saw the tiny note she had written in the margin many years before that read, “Doesn’t take away the hard times, just makes them bearable.” How is your day going today? In spite of hard days here on earth, we who belong to the Lord have Heavenly blessings!

For today: We believers have a tremendous privilege of being in Christ. What a grand place to be!