Receiving God's Blessing

God has special blessings for those who obey Him.  God extends great blessings to all and obedience is a factor in our ability to recognise and receive them.  After God gave Moses commands concerning fabricating the articles of the tabernacle, all the people whose hearts God moved contributed the necessary materials.  Skilled workers were called by God to oversee the work, and when it was completed Moses blessed them.  Exodus 39:42-43 reads, "According to all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work. ⁴³  Then Moses looked over all the work, and indeed they had done it; as the LORD had commanded, just so they had done it. And Moses blessed them."  When we faithfully do God's work according to his commands, we are most blessed.

In airports, hotels, schools, churches and business - basically wherever people go - there eventually will be an accumulation of "lost property" which remains unclaimed.  For whatever reason, things were misplaced or forgotten and either reclaimed or disposed of.  I think blessings from God are much the same.  There are many blessings God has deemed the property of people who misplace them and cannot receive the benefits because they have ceased to do things God's way.  The blessing is in one place and the person is in another.  In obedience to God and submission to His will we find the convergence of God's people and blessings both received and enjoyed.  One great blessing from our gracious God is we may not know when we were separated from His blessings or where exactly we strayed off course, but in seeking Him in repentance we find all blessing at once and the restoration of our souls.

David wrote in Psalm 24:3-6:  "Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who may stand in His holy place? ⁴ He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, nor sworn deceitfully. ⁵ He shall receive blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. ⁶ This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face. Selah"  Not one of us is worthy to stand in the presence of God and to receive a single blessing from Him.  Our hands are filthy, our hearts steeped in pride, and our mouths pour forth deceit.  How can these dry bones live?  How can this stony heart receive the rain?  Praise the LORD, for He has made a way for us to receive blessing by His grace through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.  He opens our blind eyes, strengthens our lame feet, and cleanses our souls of the leprosy of sin.  He raises us up from the dead, having washed us in the blood of Christ.  Those who humble themselves before God He will enable to stand and receive blessing and "righteousness from the God of his salvation."  Walking in obedience equips us to receive blessing from the LORD.