God doesn't bless what the world prequalifies as worthy. Not one of us can get ourselves into the position to be blessed by God. God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong, what is foolish to shame the wise, what is insignificant and despised in the world, what’s viewed as nothing, “to bring to nothing what is viewed as something.” (1 Cor 1:27-28) God reached out to rest his hand of blessing and we all thought his hand was passing us by. But then he sent his Son into the world, sent him to live among us, sent him to die in our place. And God’s hand began to move, and the earth began to shake, and the veil in the temple was torn in two, and God crossed his hands, and the blessing due to God’s one and only Son, the firstborn over all creation, instead rested upon you.