God desires to bless His children but at the same time, He does not wish that His blessing should take away His children from His house. We all know the parable of the prodigal son whom when his father blessed him immediately left the fathers house. Luke 15:11-32. Just in passing, at the beginning the story the elder son was in the house and the younger son outside the house, and at the end the younger son is in the house and the elder is outside the house.
Jesus gave another parable of the where a king made a feast for a king and invited guests and when everything was ready, he sent his servants to welcome them but they began to make excuses. One said that he had bought a land and must see it, another oxen and he must prove them and another said he just married and therefore could not come. Luke 14:16-20. If we stop for a moment and think, what made these people who were invited to the feast not come, a land, increase in oxen in our days, expansion of business, and marriage. All these are blessings which we desire at one time or another; but my point is that, the blessing became a stumbling block to this people going to the feast the king invited them.
God warned the children of Israel about forgetting about God after eating and being full. Deut 8:10-11. We need this exhortation even today.
Jesus when he gave the parable of the sower, in Mark 4:18,19 says that the seed that fell among the thorns are those who hear but cares of these world, DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES and lusts of other things enter and choke the word.
God says in Deut 8:16 says that He humbled the Israelites and tested them so that May bless them at the end. It is still true even today, God seeks first to humble us and test us and make us a blessing to many others.
Psalm 66:9-12 says that our lives are in God’s hands and He keeps us from stumbling. He TESTS us, REFINE us as silver (through fire), brings us a NET (situations which we are unable to come out) lays CRUSHING BURENS on our backs (situation that humbles us), Makes men to ride over our heads (through oppression and persecution and other ways), and through fire and water and finally God brings to a place of abundance, He makes us to be a blessing to many others. Note that in all those situations it is God not the devil who does, in other words, it is God who allows the devil to take us through all through the situation mentioned above and finally the end of it is that God makes us a blessing to many, our cup runs over blessing to many.
Looking at the example of Joseph and David, God called them when they were young and God wanted to make each of them a blessing to many. Joseph faced rejection from his family, plot to kill him, being sold in slavery, sent to the great criminal’s prisons, but all these were just the road God was using to make him a blessing. David on the other hand, was despised by his brothers, ignored by his father, his life threated by the king and was in the wilderness running for his life for many years, but this was the path to be a blessing to many.
it is said about Christ that IT PLEASED GOD TO CRUSH HIM. Is 53:10
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