“2And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” – Genesis 12:2-3 (ESV)
This is the passage where Abram is called by God, and whereas that is the greatness of the passage, as I read this morning, I picked up on verse 2 above. God called Abram to go and he did. The end of the verse is where I was impacted this morning.
Abram and his family was blessed, yes. Abram was a blessing to those around him. He and his family were the blessing to others. You can see that fact in verse 3, but when I look closely at verse 3 I see the same. God blessed Abram so that he could be a blessing to others.
I have to allow God to bless me and my family. I do not and should not resist Him. I should be approaching things with those blessings in mind. God will bless me and my family and I need to be on the lookout for those blessings. I have for so long been only seeing the adversity and persecution. I am a child of God and He will bless me, I should be looking for and using those blessing to be a blessing for others.
I was telling my youngest son, Aarron, not too long ago that giving does not have to be around the world. We have a neighbor that asked if we could keep up with her yard on occasion. Not really to be the gardener, but just to weed eat and mow on occasion. That is the giving and where we can have a greater impact. We take care of those around us and be a blessing to them.
What have you not been allowing as a blessing? Are you receiving the blessings that God has for you? Are you then being a blessing thanks to your reception of blessing?
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