# What Is a Blessing?

Poem

Language: en  
Author: –Darren Brubaker  
Original issue: The Heartbeat of the Remnant, Winter 2019, Number 4  
Source pages: 35  
Read article: <https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/poetry/what-is-a-blessing/>
Original PDF: Winter\-2019\-Remnant\.pdf
[The Heartbeat of the Remnant, Winter 2019](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/issues/heartbeat-remnant-2019-winter/>)

![Snow\-covered evergreens beside a narrow creek](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/images/articles/c6d7895b-ceee-44f0-a6c8-7d5642958042-1.jpg>)

It seems that Christians rich and poor,  
 Persecuted or free,  
 Claim that God has richly blessed them\.  
 But can this really be?

One or the other must be wrong  
 So let’s have a little quiz  
 And see if we can figure out  
 What a true blessing is\.

A blessing is a gift from God  
 That makes us love Him more\.  
 It makes us long to be with Him  
 On heaven’s golden shore\.

A blessing profits us throughout  
 That long eternity\.  
 It’s something we do not deserve,  
 Yet it’s completely free\.

Is it perhaps a mansion grand  
 Or just a cottage small,  
 That makes us long for Heaven’s home  
 Beyond the jasper wall?

Is it cupboards full of good food  
 In this world here below?  
 Or maybe it is hunger, thirst  
 That makes us long to go\.

Perhaps it is a bumper crop,  
 A summer with much rain\.  
 Or does a drought bring longing for  
 That bountiful shore to gain?

Does having a big bank account  
 Make us for heaven sigh?  
 Or does poverty bring a longing  
 For treasure in the sky?

Is it second\-hand clothes, or ones  
 Designed to fit just right  
 That makes us long to join the throng  
 Of angels robed in white?

Is it a healthy life, or one  
 With sickness, pills, and pain,  
 That makes us put all effort forth  
 That healthful shore to gain?

Is it freedom of religion  
 To worship without fear  
 Or persecution bitter fierce  
 That makes our faith so dear?

Is it ease or is it sorrow  
 That makes us long each day  
 To have God take us in His arms  
 And wipe all tears away?

Oh when the end of time has come  
 And earth shall be no more,  
 Kneeling by God’s blissful throne  
 What will we thank Him for?

Will we thank Him for earth’s riches  
 That filled our hearts with strife;  
 Or for the rough way that has led  
 Unto the tree of life?

So in conclusion, friends, let’s take  
 That strait and narrow way\.  
 We say we’re only pilgrims here,  
 So why not live that way?