In Genesis 12, God tells Abram as part of their partnership, "...all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
If you know the Biblical story, you know this is the point at which God entrusts his plan to bless the whole earth to a single person.
Pretty risky on God's part, right? What if Abram doesn't succeed?
At the very least, this highlights the fact that God is a risk-taker. He'll apparently roll the dice on just about anyone. What's more, God seems to trust us more than we trust ourselves...because behind it, God knows God's own ability to transform a person into a blessing machine.
So if you've ever been blessed, it is the result of God's partnership with one man.
God's risk paid off.
As friends of Jesus, we now we stand in the same line of that promise God made to Abram. We are to carry on the work of blessing-machine-ness. It's the point and purpose of our lives. Here's what it means to bless someone:
To do something good with no expectation of a return.
So your job today: be a blessing machine.
Leave a comment if you'd like to share your story of blessing another person.
--Scott
My coworker is going through a divorce. She has four children under the age of six. She got to work stressed and explained she had a meeting with her son's teacher. (2 problems, she's AT work, and has no car).
ReplyDeleteI told her we had more than enough people on shift to cover her station and that she could take my car. I was upbeat and calm and told her everything would be okay.
Beautiful!
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