Wednesday, November 5, 2014

God's Blessings

I was recently on my regular morning walk when someone responded to something I said with, 'God bless you'. He meant it as, 'Well, good for you'. But it got me thinking about God blessing people. I actually think that He does bless and that His blessings make a difference. 

Sometimes God blesses just because He wants to be gracious. So, out of the blue, people are blessed. But there is another category here. There are times that God blesses because someone has worked for it. He has 'found favor in God's sight' and was rewarded with a blessing of some sort. I might almost say he has earned God's blessing. Almost. 

My sense is that too many Christians do not work for God's blessings and thus miss out on some of the good that He gives. One reason for this is that they have not been taught about the importance of finding favor in God's sight. They have not been taught to work for His blessings. But those that do work at this are blessed and this shows in how they live. God's almost-earned blessings make a difference.