Blessing- a beneficial thing for which one is grateful
It’s a beautiful word. It’s a term found many times in the Bible and it’s applied different ways too
The first way I want to talk about is: God blessing us: God can bless us materially and provide things like clothes and food for us. And he does that very often. If you have a house to live in, nice clothes, good friends, you should be thankful for that blessing! But God does not only bless us with material things. He blesses us with things that are worth far more than that. He blesses us with strength, with peace, with comfort, and much more. We should be so grateful for this!!
And Because God blesses us we in turn should want to bless others.
When someone does something nice for you doesn’t it make you want to do something nice for somebody else? And that leads me into the second way of blessing
The second way is us blessing others. Blessing others is a wonderful opportunity to show God’s love and to also impact our spiritual growth. He calls us to love just as He loves us.
John 15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
He also wants us to bless those who we don’t necessarily want to bless. In 1 Peter 3:9 “Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing”. Sometimes others don’t respond back in a pleasant way. But we have to remember we are doing it out of love and also that just cause we don’t see the fruit of it now, it can have a lasting effect on them later.
God says by blessing others we will be blessed! Our world is very broken right now, and sometimes seems scary and hurtful. But one way we can change this starting with ourselves in our very lives, is to bless others. Whether it’s our family, our friends, an acquaintance or even just someone you know of, blessing others brings about joy, healing, and love. Because when we bless others, we in turn are blessed!!
How can we bless others?
Xoxo, Shantel
Positive thoughts.thanks .