Be a Blessing

As followers of Christ how can we make it through life without each other? Being a Christian is one of the most selfless lifestyles you can live, but it’s also the most rewarding at the same time. Although sometimes that is not portrayed throughout the church. The trend inside the church is “What can God do for me”? We often get caught up in ourselves, with the things going on in our lives, with our own dreams and desires, etc… The simple answer to the question “What can God do for me” is everything. God can turn your life up-side down or right-side up in the blink of an eye.

I think the attitude in His church should be “What can I do for you” instead? That’s what Jesus was all about and still is today. When Jesus was born His sole mission was based on what can I do for you, when He was being crucified He wasn’t doing it for Himself but rather for you and I. When He taught the people He wasn’t doing it so He could get more popular and famous, He was doing it so He could teach and encourage us. Even now Jesus is still doing the same thing; He is at the right hand of the Father interceding for you and me.

So, if the people of God are only focused on how God is going to bless them then I think we’ve missed a critical aspect of what it really means to be a follower of Christ, not knowing that your blessing is through your giving.

Romans 1:11-12 (NKJV)
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established- that is, that I may be encouraged together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

Paul is saying here in His letter to the people of God in Rome that he can’t wait to see them so that he may give them something that will be of good use to them concerning their faith. He is also saying so that he may be strengthened together with them in their faith.

That poses another question; if the people of God are so busy manifesting their own blessings, what happens to the believers that are struggling and are on the verge of giving up on God? I was listening to a song the other day by a Christian rap artist and the song was about how he was struggling in his faith and how he was feeling disconnected and all the things of his past were trying to lure him back to his old ways. In the above scripture Paul points out that through their encouragement together in the faith they would be strengthened together.

If you are in the body of Christ it’s important that we all work as one, that means of the same mind and accord concerning the things of God and that also means of the same values. Do you value being blessed more or being the blessing?

Thank you all,

Daryle Houston II
Kingdom Vizion Ministries
www.kingdomvizion.org