Are you a Blessing?

The Lord blesses you so that you are a blessing in the places where you live, work, and play.

The Lord’s insight. The Lord blesses you so that your mere presence around others is a blessing to others.

Lamentations 3:22-23. “Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed.  Because His compassions do not fail.  They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.”

2 Corinthians 5:17. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

God told Abraham in Genesis 12:3 that He would make Abraham a great nation and that He would bless Abraham.  He also told Abraham He would make even his name great and that he (Abraham) would be a blessing to others wherever he went.

When we look at all we know about Abraham, I see this one thing clearly.  He understood that he could not be a blessing when he held onto all the blessings God gave him.  Abraham didn’t walk around saying he was blessed to be a blessing.  Abraham walked around understanding that being blessed by the Lord meant he would be a blessing of the Lord in the lives of others.

In a way, on that faithful day when Abraham agreed to God’s request to leave his family and go to a place and land, he knew nothing of, Abraham was saying, I must leave the old and so that I can find the new.  Abraham was for us an example of what it means for us to leave our old selves and find new life in Christ.

We also know this about Abraham.  When he moved forward with God, he did not look back at his past.  He looked ahead to all that was before him.  Abraham did not wake up and do the things he did yesterday.  He woke up doing things he had never done before.

How is this so?  Well, because Abraham woke up every day being a new person, living out a new life, doing new things with God at his side.  He did not fret about what he didn’t know.  He did not worry about what came against him.  He did not question where he was because he focused on where he was going with God.

Abraham probably thought if anyone is as close to God as he was, he had to be a new creation.  Old things had to die so that new things could come. Every day Abraham lived a blessed life with God. And his life with God was a blessing to others wherever he went.

Abraham knew that no matter what he faced in his new life, he would be ok.  Because he had the mercies of God round about him.  He had the never-failing compassion of God showered upon him. And this was new to him each day.  So, he knew he would never be overcome by anything that he wasn’t prepared to overcome.

Just like with Abraham and God, With the Lord, we must let go of the old to provide a way for the new.  We cannot be a blessing when we hang onto the life and the blessing we received yesterday.  So, why don’t you ask yourself, are you a blessing?

Is your life, lived where it is lived, a blessing in the environment where you are?  Is your life an addition to what is there, or does it take from what is there?  Does your life make things better or does it make things?  Do others value you being around them more than they feel like you make no difference in their lives?

When you are a blessing, like Abraham, others will know the Lord is good to you because you wait for and respond to Him more than to people.  They will know that you live waiting for something great that they should learn to wait for. They will know that you live fulfilled and filled with hope that is in the Lord more than by seeking something that is of the world.

When you are a blessing, you do not need to do anything but be there for those who are looking for a blessing from the Lord.  When you are a blessing, others will see in you the faithfulness of the Lord and how great it is and how it blesses all those lucky enough to be around you today.

Are you a blessing?  Why or why not?

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