Day 35~ Our God who Wants to Bless Us!

We know that our God is an awesome God and that he loves us. We also understand that he wants to bless us and through our obedience and faith, we can have just that.

Today, let us reflect on the topic; Our God who Wants to Bless Us.

Today's scripture is found in Genesis, where we see a man who had just been given a blessing and was told to sacrifice it.

Genesis 22:2 says;

""Take your son," God said, "your only son, Isaac, whom you love so much, and go to the land of Moriah. There on a mountain that I will show you, offer him as a sacrifice to me.""

Issac, was Abraham's promised child, he was Abraham's blessing from God, yet God asked Abraham to sacrifice him.

I could imagine Abraham thinking, 'But God, I've wanted this so much. It was a miracle that I even had this child and now you're asking me to take his life?"

However, Abraham did exactly what God had told him to do.
Of course, before Issac could be sacrificed, God stopped Abraham and provided a ram for the sacrifice.

That day Abraham's faith and trust in God won him this promise,

"I make a vow by my own name - the Lord is speaking - that I will richly bless you. Because you did this and did not keep back your only son from me, I promise that I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the seashore. Your descendants will conquer their enemies. All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants - all because you have obeyed my command."

Let me ask you today, if God asked you to give up the thing that you love most, for his sake, would you, like Abraham, obediently do so?

It takes a lot of faith to believe in God when he asks us to give up the things that we love, Abraham was a great man of faith. Usually, though, when God asks us to give up something, it's bad for us and giving it up is in our best interest. 

In today's world, we have a lot of distractions. There are lots of ways to keep ourselves occupied, time easily escapes us whether we're meeting deadlines for work or school or spending our time doing chores or watching movies, there are hundreds of ways we can spend our time, but how much of that time do we spend with God?

Spending time with God is in our best interest, God doesn't need us, we need him and his guidance and protection, we are the ones that need to increase our faith so he can bless us.

Sometimes, we may even get caught up in the wrong things, we may spend our time with the wrong people or with addictions or even with negative thoughts, not realizing that those very things are steadily pulling us away from God.

Luckily, we can easily return to our Heavenly Father, he is always waiting for us to come to him. He wants to spend time with us, he wants to have a relationship with us.

We need to be like Abraham and obediently do what God is commanding us to do. We have to give up on those negative things that keep us away from him and we need to make more time for him. In this way, we can learn to trust in God and our faith will make us right with him and he will bless us. 

Could it be that there is something that God is asking you to give up for his sake? Is there something in your life that is restricting the growth of your faith and trust in God?

The funny thing is that God saved Abraham's son by providing a ram for the sacrifice, yet, years later, God sacrificed his own son for all Abraham's descendants.

Yes, God will do difficult things for you, impossible things for you, miraculous and wonderous things for you, but you must trust him and sacrifice the things that are pulling you away from him.

Psalms 84:11 reminds us;

"...no good thing will he withhold from from them that walk uprightly."

Our God wants to bless us abundantly above and beyond, now, it's up to us to claim his blessings by living right and trusting in him, just like Abraham.