“What a blessing!” “I am so blessed”. We toss that idea around about everything from a promotion at work to a new car or a healthy report from the doctor. Certainly God is generous to us and often gives us so many wonderful gifts of His grace for us to enjoy. But we would do well to understand His purpose in the blessings He bestows. That very well might change how we steward them…
In Genesis 12:2, God tells Abraham “I will make you a great nation and I will bless you. And make your name great and so you shall be a blessing.”
Instead of seeing God’s generosity as something for us to enjoy or even as a sign of His preference towards us, let’s view blessings like our good health and our material prosperity as a means to bless others. May we be like the church at Corinth whom Paul commended because “at this present time your abundance being a supply for their want.” Rather than being a place where blessings stop for self-consumption, may we be a vessel through which God pours His gifts out to others.