Christian Living

Are We More of a Blessing or a Curse?

by Travis Darnell
10/14/17
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           As a whole, are we allowing God to make us a blessing to the world? It is His will for us after all, “And you shall be a blessing” (Genesis 12:2, NKJ). Do we refresh others, encourage others, make backsliders homesick for God, build and edify our brothers and sisters in Christ in their faith? Or do we continually burden our own people by constantly rehashing over and over all of our problems, creating dramas in our people’s lives, complaining against the church and others, etc. You know those people I’m talking about.

            In our relationships and friendships, are we more characterized by giving or taking? Truly, God is interested in this area of our lives. Personally, sometimes I wish He wasn't so interested in this area, but He is. He loves us too much not to be. How different the world would be if in every relationship/friendship we go into, we took the attitude of being a blessing to others, instead of taking the attitude of “what benefit is this person to me.” In the world today, mankind has adopted the “taker” attitude instead of the “blesser” attitude that God wills. Wonder why our relationships and friendships sometimes don’t last and have become so blunted? We no longer are living out of God’s order for mankind, to be a blessing to others.

            Of course, if we never care to be a blessing to God first and foremost, then we will never be able to be a blessing to others. King David consistently throughout his whole life sought out to be a blessing to God. Just read the Psalms: 17:7, “I will praise the Lord,” and “will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High,” 8:1, “O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth,” 9:14, “That I may tell of Your praise,” 18,1, “I will love You, O Lord,” and 19:14, “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Your sight” (NKJ). First seek to bless God by embracing Him and all that He is, and then He will make us a blessing to others.

             We as Christians’ are to be made “as a poured out drink offering” (Philippians 2:1) to the world and to each other from God. The crucifixion of Jesus Christ was only a one-time event, but His sacrifice of body and Spirit is to continue on through us. If we are allowing God to make us into a “poured out drink offering” of His love that was displayed on the cross, then we are being a Godly delight to those around us. This should mark our lives as Christian’s. We need to become so lost in Christ and everything that He is to us, that we no longer take care over our own lives, but only seek to nourish His own Life inside us. So let us get our eyes off ourselves and only be concerned with the Life of God within us. Then God Himself will bless the world through us.