A Double Blessing To You

What do you offer to others when you greet them?  Hello?  How are you?  How's it going?  Is all well? What do others offer to you in greeting? Let's learn a lesson from the Apostle Paul, the writer of half the books in the New Testament.  In each of his letters, his greeting was not simply a blessing, but a double blessing.  Yes, a double blessing. Whether he addressed the letter to an individual as he did to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon, or to the various churches, Paul offered a double blessing.  Not only did he offer the double blessing as his greeting, he offered the same blessing to every church and to each of the individuals that he wrote.

What was the double blessing?  GRACE and PEACE, and that extended not from Paul but from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.   What might be the result if you extended the same double blessing to everyone that you encountered?  What was Paul saying as he wrote GRACE and PEACE? GRACE means God's unmerited favor, that which is undeserving, favor, goodwill, kindness, thanks, benefit.  PEACE means tranquility, quietness, the concept of Shalom, and more. 

Consider the law of sowing and reaping.  Sow the double blessing of  GRACE and PEACE into the lives of others.  Reap the double blessing of GRACE and PEACE in your own life.  Try it.  Why not? What do you have to lose? 

My double blessing to you … GRACE and PEACE!!!