God's Gifts #26

You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock - the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

Then the trees of the forest will sing, they will sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

Deut 28:3-6, 1 Chronicles 16:33-34 www.solascriptura.com

Father, when we read of Your gifts, the blessings that You promise to Your children, we are encouraged. We know that You love us and that You want to shower us with Your blessings.

We also know that we are often weak in our faith, not always in the center of Your will and sort of "going it on our own", far too often.

Here we read that the trees will rejoice, that nature will sing for joy at Your coming, Jesus, on Judgment day. We see that Your love endures forever.

O' Jesus, we are so unworthy but You have taught us this prayer, uttered by John the Baptist; we must decrease but You, Jesus, must increase. That is our prayer today. Help us to be like You Jesus, fill us afresh with the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. We pray in Jesus' name, amen.


Bruce Caldwell