302. Showers of Blessing
Ezekiel 34:26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
We believe, and sometimes we experience, the blessing of God upon our lives, particularly our spiritual lives. The Lord promises showers of blessing in season. We will not always, every minute, feel the spiritual blessings of the Lord, but there will be seasons of blessings. But the Christian knows that he is blessed all the time, whether it is in season or out of season. Seasons come and go, but blessing continues on. It is just that at certain seasons we see it more clearly than in others. The promise is given that there will be seasons of blessing, but faith knows that true spiritual blessing is always present and available to us.
But what we don’t usually realize is that the places around the invisible church (my hill) are also blessed. Just being a true believer and walking around in the world the Christian affects life and people around him or her. And when Christians meet together in Jesus’ name the physical place and the people nearby are blessed. We seldom see this blessing of “places round about,” but we still believe it to be true because God promises that it is so.
Jesus says that we are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. He doesn’t command us to be. We don’t try to be. We just are. Every Christian individual, family and church has a positive effect upon the places on earth where the Gospel is believed and preached. It is probably a good thing we don’t see the effect we have, for then we would become unduly proud (and that’s a bad thing). Because we don’t see the blessings God gives through us we need the Word to tell us so that we may believe the promise.
The Word says we, that is, our words, will have either the effect of blessing or cursing. James 3:16: “From the same mouth come blessing and cursing.” For this reason we “set an angel at the door of my mouth.” And the Bible also warns that every word has the power to tend toward life or death (by blessing or cursing). Believe the promise: you are a blessing. So what do we do? Bring every thought captive to Jesus Christ and every word under the control of the Spirit by remembering the Gospel of Christ.