Many of us hear or use the phrase “be blessed” but do we really know what it means? Jesus uses the term “blessed” in his most famous sermon, the Sermon on the Mount, in a section often called the “Beatitudes.” In the Beatitudes, Jesus totally shocks us with a much different version of a blessing than many expect. He shows us how being blessed is much different than everything going well for us. In fact, we can be blessed even when everything seems to be going wrong.