- Bless
Psalm 5.12
For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous.
The conditional promise of blessing for the righteous becomes an unconditional promise when we realize that it is the Lord Himself who makes us righteous through Jesus Christ, and thus believers in Christ qualify for the blessing. “The Lord will bless the righteous.” This blessing includes forgiveness, salvation and eternal life, but it also includes much more than that since forgiveness, life and salvation is a part of being “the righteous;” It would include the temporal benefits and blessings of a peaceful and prosperous life on earth. It would include all the blessings of the covenant promises for those who obey the commandments as detailed in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. These are blessings added on top of the spiritual benefits earned by the life, death and resurrection of Christ.
As a matter of fact, this promise repeats Deuteronomy: if you do the commandments in this covenant these blessings will follow. The one who keeps the covenant commands is the righteous one; the Lord will bless him with the blessings promised.
Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, the only one who kept the commandments perfectly, has legally earned the blessings. We who believe in Christ are declared righteous, as Christ is righteous; we are “the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21). O righteous one, receive and enjoy God’s blessing.