While prayer-walking in our beautiful compound yesterday evening, I couldn’t but thank God for the great reward of our lovely house and home. At that moment, our sweet daughters Eden and Abigail passed by, and I again thanked God for them too, when I remembered that the miracles that surrounded their births were because of my obedience to an instruction regarding generosity that God had given me more than a decade earlier. It is in that state of gratitude for those particular blessings and others that I was inspired to continue walking in the way of obedience to God, even when He does not tell me the good that will come out of it. It is my prayer that you too will be encouraged to simply obey what God tells you to do for Him, so that you live a blessed life.
God told the His chosen people, the Israelites, that He would bless them if they obeyed His commandments (Deuteronomy 28:1-13). That promise still stands, and it applies to us who once “were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise . . . But now in Christ Jesus . . . have been brought near by the blood of Christ,” (Ephesians 2:12-13). If we live for the Lord, seeking His will and doing it, then He will bless us in this age and in the next. For it is written, “Godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come,” (1 Timothy 4:8).
Now, for those who will live in obedience to God, each person’s blessings will definitely not be similar in type, quality, and quantity to those of another ‘obeyer’. In fact, the type, quality and quantity of a blessing should never be understood to indicate how obedient to God someone has lived. It is only in eternity that we shall know what God rarely reveals to us in this age. Therefore, obey God and receive His blessings, and do not compare what you receive with what your fellow ‘obeyer’ receives. And please remember that the more you obey God, the more blessings will be credited on your heavenly account, to be enjoyed in this life, and in the one which is to come.
God bless you.