The Blessed and Blessedness

Man’s greatest aspiration is to be happy. Man’s greatest aspiration should be to know reality. He should desire to know reality more then happiness because then he would that the world’s definition of happiness and where it is found is just an appearance whereas reality is real and really God and contains the real answers. There is an obstacle in man’s path to true knowledge of reality; it is man himself. Man projects his definitions, his aspirations, and his pride on to his interpretation, his paradigm of reality. Reason and science lead man to knowledge of reality. But revelation and faith which is greater than reason and science leads man to know reality. God said that what man thinks is reality is actually just appearance. Man thinks that the purpose of life on earth is to find happiness, love (romantic & cosy) and success. Christ said that man’s wisdom regarding happiness and success are just an appearance of realities purpose. Christ definition of happiness is not the world’s definition. The world’s paradigm is that you must come first, be a winner, be rich, celebrated, an achiever, be top of the pile or famous to be happy and successful. Christ says that, you that are failures, broken, poor, losers, the forgotten, the suffering, and last are the real successes of this world. In his sermon on the mount (Mathew 5: 3-12), Christ says that these individuals are blessed and contain blessedness. Beatitude is perfected love and charity, ultimate happiness, an objective reality and state in that reality, our greatest good; it is the maximum standard for man’s life on earth. Man seeks, he seeks all his life, he seeks when he seeks, and he seeks when he thinks he is not seeking. He thinks he seeks happiness on earth. We can never be happy on earth because earth is not heaven. Whilst on earth we are living separate from the true and whole unity with God. Man seeks more then happiness, he seeks to be blessed. Blessed is the end but man confuses the means. Man seeks in all the wrong places, and hangs out in all the wrong joints like power, pleasure and riches. People want happy feelings, feeling good, pleasure and gratification. But these are all temporary. Feelings and gratification are fleeting and shallow. Here today or gone tomorrow. If you find happiness at all it is by chance. Blessedness is a permanent state, a deep state. It is not a happy feeling but an objective fact. We should chose this state, and receive it by God’s grace.