The Source of Blessings

Most of us have at one time or another on the journey of faith been blessing hunters.  We get an idea that there is some blessing that will make us a stronger Christian and so out we go full of grit and pious determination to get it.  Some go after the gift of speaking in tongues with a fervor that goes far beyond any ordinary discipline.  Others set out to be mighty in prayer.  And, some seek a relationship with God that will mark them as one of the elite in spiritual circles.  We can come to the place, and many of us do, where we believe that receiving the blessings of God are more about what we do and how we position ourselves than the grace of God.

 

What may indeed be true is that the blessings we seek either come to us, or we do not experience them at all.  And the more we travel this road with Christ, the more it seems that the blessings we must have today are the blessings that come slowly to us, and sometimes, may not come at all.  The Word teaches us that God is the One who blesses.  We may speak words of blessings upon ourselves or upon others, but it is finally God who brings the fullness of the blessing upon us.

 

While there is nothing wrong with our desiring the blessings of God in our lives, it is better to find some way to sit and wait for the blessings God desires to grant to us.  It may be that what opens our hearts up to even greater spiritual blessing is not our own striving, but our waiting on God.  When we wait on God, paying attention to how it is that His blessings have already fallen abundantly upon our path, and we do so with a spirit of thanksgiving, it is likely that we will discover greater blessings than ever we would have dared to ask.  Even as love comes to us so do the blessings of God.