However, God’s blessing on his people is so much more than having enough in our cupboards to eat and nothing to cause us to worry. Otherwise many of us would have to conclude that in reality we are not so very blessed right now. There must be more to God’s blessing than that—and there is. The priestly benediction unpacks the deeper aspects of the Lord’s blessing in two vivid and related images: “The LORD make his face to shine upon you”—“the LORD lift up his countenance upon you.” True blessing