Numbers 6:24
The Lord bless you and keep you. Numbers 6:24
This Aaronic blessing is Watchword on a day when this very blessing is pronounced on God’s people. Today is Maundy Thursday and with the commemoration of the Last Supper tonight this blessing will be invoked upon God’s worshipping the tendency to look to see what ‘good’ thing the Lord has given. Anything that is seen as less positive is often considered a ‘curse’. But I challenge you to consider some ‘strange blessings’ today.
This Aaronic blessing is Watchword on a day when this very blessing is pronounced on God’s people. Today is Maundy Thursday and with the commemoration of the Last Supper tonight this blessing will be invoked upon God’s worshipping the tendency to look to see what ‘good’ thing the Lord has given. Anything that is seen as less positive is often considered a ‘curse’. But I challenge you to consider some ‘strange blessings’ today.
Have you ever had God say ‘No’ to your prayer? How disappointed you were at that time! But remember how things finally worked out for you. God had something better in store for you. Actually, the Lord directs your path by the opening and closing of doors. He closes doors to keep you out of trouble and opens just the right door for you. Once a door closes you are forced to change course. Then you will find the open door and walk right into your blessing.
One woman suffered immense pain for two years. Her doctors could not find the cause and so they carried her through a series of tests. In the process of these tests they found some pre-cancerous polyps, which they were able to remove. The woman realized that, had she not been suffering the pain she would not have had that test which revealed this. She thanked God for the ‘blessing of pain’.
The blessing is usually there – somewhere. You just have to look for it. Sometimes you may have to look pretty hard, because human beings are conditioned to judge by appearances. But it is there, for God has promised that he will not with-hold any good thing from his followers (Psalm 84:11). He has promised to ‘bless you and keep you’. See his special blessing in his work of redemption as this blessing is invoked upon you in this precursor to that work. Take it as a commitment each time the blessing is pronounced before you. And always look beyond the obvious and see the intended.
Prayer:
Pour out your blessing upon us this day, O Lord. Grant us to see it in the unexpected and the unlikely. And show it to us again in your redemptive work so that we make experience with a ‘new freshness’ the Aaronic Blessing as it is invoked upon us this day. Amen.
One woman suffered immense pain for two years. Her doctors could not find the cause and so they carried her through a series of tests. In the process of these tests they found some pre-cancerous polyps, which they were able to remove. The woman realized that, had she not been suffering the pain she would not have had that test which revealed this. She thanked God for the ‘blessing of pain’.
The blessing is usually there – somewhere. You just have to look for it. Sometimes you may have to look pretty hard, because human beings are conditioned to judge by appearances. But it is there, for God has promised that he will not with-hold any good thing from his followers (Psalm 84:11). He has promised to ‘bless you and keep you’. See his special blessing in his work of redemption as this blessing is invoked upon you in this precursor to that work. Take it as a commitment each time the blessing is pronounced before you. And always look beyond the obvious and see the intended.
Prayer:
Pour out your blessing upon us this day, O Lord. Grant us to see it in the unexpected and the unlikely. And show it to us again in your redemptive work so that we make experience with a ‘new freshness’ the Aaronic Blessing as it is invoked upon us this day. Amen.
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