Have you ever thought about the idea of blessing? Or why the Bible says stuff like, "I will bless the Lord"? I have actually studied it a number of times with the Hebrew/Greek lexicons. What I do for fun. Not really, I'm kidding. If I am reading something I don't understand, I just go on Biblegateway.com. It takes about 1 minute to find every lexicon, concordance and translation you could ever want. Love it.
Anywhoo....I have been writing a lot of emails lately because if you want to get something done for the Air Force you send an email. I have been working closely with a lot of the chapel staff working on programs. In closing I would always write something like "have a blessed day" or something like that. Just because you don't want to write "sincerely" or "yours truly". ha. It sort of made think about what I was writing though. A lot of people say "be blessed" or "blessings", but what does it mean?
Finally, someone answered my question today. Thank you, Beth Moore. Day 3 of my study this week was entitled, "Blessing Others". The verse in Ephesians 1:3, "Praise be to God and Father....who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ..."
The word blessed in this verse comes from the Greek word transliteration eulogeo. Meaning to praise, celebrate with praises, to invoke blessings; favored of God, blessed. The break down of the word Eulogeo is Eu which means good or well and logos which means word. Put the two together and you have a good word. In other words, when we are blessing God we are speaking good words about Him or what we would call praising Him. Speaking good words about God is encouraging and uplifting to your spirit, and God asks us to bless Him, He loves it. But, what about what the good words He speaks over us. I don't really know that I thought too much about that part of it until today. I will quote Beth on this because it just too good to leave out, "We might not realize just how much we want to bless God until we grasp how much He's blessed us". God has been talking about me and it's all good.
"Part of God's spoken blessing over our lives involves us allowing God to act in man's life to accomplish His purposes instead of the allowing men to have their own way."
I am glad for the times that God did not allow me to have my own way. Our first real ministry position at Panama First was so much our element. We loved the youth. We couldn't believe we were actually getting paid to hang out with youth and love them. It was hard for us to leave and go active duty. I felt like I could have stayed there with Kyle being a youth pastor forever. I literally cried until I didn't think I had anymore tears! :( But, I couldn't tell Kyle, no, I don't want to do this, because I knew in my heart it was the right thing to do. I have went kicking and screaming towards most things in my life I guess. ha. Another one time was deployment, I dreaded it so much, but I can honestly say that it was a great growing experience for both me and Kyle spiritually. I would not trade that deployment. Moving to Alaska was another challenge. I feel like it has been perfectly planned for me to be here though. Very good assignment for me.
God has perfectly planned the map of our life. It's a good thing we can only see a little of the map at a time. It would be more than we could handle if we could see next year, I think. I would have missed out on so many good things in life if God would have allowed me to have my way all the time. Thank you, God for the spoken blessing on my life!
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"We might not realize just how much we want to bless God until we grasp how much He's blessed us."
That's the key right there. I know that there is no way to give thanks enough for all the Lord has done for me, but I will die trying.
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