Genesis 12:2 “And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing;”

Over this past week, there has seemed to be a theme of “blessing” that keeps popping up for me. One night, one of my co-workers brought up this idea of God’s blessings on us. Various other events as well such as class devos, even my Bible readings!

I remember one time when my father and grandfather went on a short-term missions trip to Brazil. They returned and when my dad got home, he called us kids together. Now please forgive if I do not remember everything clearly, but I will do my best to make a coherent story of this. My dad calls us children together, and then he pulls out some gifts from his bag and started to hand them to us. I do not remember which one of us 3 (at the time) asked him this, but one of us asked what occasion the gifts were for. My dad then replied something to this effect: “Do I need to have an occasion to give gifts to my children?”

Reading through scripture, God is the same way! He wants to give us blessings! There is no wonder at why we would call Him “Our father who is in Heaven.” Not only does He correct our misbehaviour. Not only does God discipline us, not only does He give us rules to live in this world of His, He also loves to bless us. He wants to dote on us! He does not have to. He does not need to, but He does anyway! That is amazing. Could God have used Abram the same way if He did NOT bless him with cattle and belongings? Of course! Could God have created a nation out of Abram without telling him? Of course! Yet God told Abram and God blessed Abram.

How is God blessing us? Do we need His blessings? Not really, but He does anyway. He blesses us daily! Last night, He blessed me with a view of the moon. Sounds simple yes? Yet I was blessed. There was a perfect circle of clouds around the moon, and then coming out from the clouds outside the ring was a twisting spiral of more clouds, somewhat hurricane-ish, much as if I was standing at the eye of a storm, and was looking directly up into the peaceful heavens!

How is God Blessing you? If God wants to bless us can we prevent Him from it? Can we deny God’s Blessing? Can we misunderstand God’s Blessing? Can we be blessed and think it a curse?

Think on these over this next week as I will pray daily for you. Pray as well for me to accept God’s desire for my life.