We were at a home group recently and the leader asked “What is a blessing?” Now that is quite a question to be asked out of the blue! One person said that it was the good things that we have or get. Another said that it is what we give back to God, just as David said in the psalms, “Bless the Lord, O my soul”. Yet another pointed out, that if we receive a blessing, we are not to keep it to ourselves, but are to pass it on to someone else.

    That reminded me of an old hymn that we used to sing…. Is your life a channel of blessing? Is the love of God flowing through you?
Are you telling the lost of the Savior?
Are you ready His service to do? And the chorus…. Make me a channel of blessing today,
Make me a channel of blessing, I pray;
My life possessing, my service blessing,
  Make me a channel of blessing today.

The last verse says…. We cannot be channels of blessing
If our lives are not free from all sin;
We will barriers be and a hindrance
To those we are trying to win.

    So we see that as we receive, so we must pass it on. Especially in the matter of having a blessing from something we have read in the Bible. If we don’t know it, we cannot pass anything on from it!     When we stop and think of it, everything we have on earth is a blessing from God, even the very air we breathe! What a blessing good health is too! How thankful we have to be for all the blessings that God bestows upon us! We are to overlook the annoying things we encounter from day to day, and concentrate on the positive side of things!

   The book of Psalms has many thoughts about blessings….listen to these ones from Psalm 34 :1-6…this is how we can bless the Lord, thanking Him for what He has done for us!  This is how it starts….“I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall be continually in my mouth”  That on its own is a challenge to us….how much do we praise God for what we have ? Let’s think about these things and put them into practice!!