These are the ones to be congratulated. These are the ways we publish slogans of who will make it, of who counts. We hear them constantly. We measure ourselves by them and judge ourselves and each other by them. These are the ones who have made it.
Congratulations go to the winner.
Blessed are you who get the promotion. Blessed are you who buy a second house. Congratulations to you who get into Cal Berkeley. Congratulations to you who win the Super Bowl. But Jesus seems to get this all backwards.