Blessed to become a blessing

Gal 3:14 so that the blessing of Abraham might be to the nations in Jesus Christ, and that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

As we bless others, we are allowing the beneficial life or force of God that has been conferred upon us and resides within us to be transmitted through us. Jesus said that when the Holy Ghost comes to us that rivers of living water will flow out from us.

Unfortunately, there's a tendency that when a benefit of God comes to us, we stop it and turn the rivers into swamps. Any river that cannot flow ceases to be a river and becomes a swamp.

The Jordan River in Israel flows into what is called the Dead Sea. While the Dead Sea's water is part of the Jordan River, which is alive and full of fish, after it enters the Dead Sea, nothing can live in it. This once vibrant water becomes stagnant because it can no longer flow freely. The water dies and begins to stink.

Sadly, that is what happens in the body of Christ. God does a special work and creates a river within the lives of His people, but the living waters become a swamp because we stop the flow.

We all acknowledge that God wants to bless us, but we have not truly understood that He wants to bless us so that we might be a blessing to others.

We should take the next step and become a blessing.

1Pe 3:9 Never give back evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, giving blessing, knowing that you are called to this so that you might inherit blessing.

Eph 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus. 2 Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ;

Perhaps you do not feel particularly blessed at the moment. Well, let me remind you that if you achieve the greater blessing, which is being a blessing to others, you will automatically receive the lesser, which is being blessed yourself.

One of your great blessings is that Christ has redeemed you from the Law.

Your blessings are sure, for they are completed works, which means they have already been accomplished. How did Christ redeem us? By being made a curse for us: "For it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree" (Gal. 3:13). Why did He do it? So that "the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles" (v. 14).

All of us were unbe-lievers, or Gentiles, at one time, but after accepting Christ's sacrifice we became Abraham's heirs and partakers of the covenant. The apostle Paul said, "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ" (Rom. 8:17).