Who Gets Your Blessing? Series

Closing: God is calling some messed up people to do some big things. We don’t get to determine who gets the blessing. He does. It’s in our weakness He is made strong. He alone is sovereign. He sees the complete picture while we see only the blemishes. Most artists will tell you that it is often those one of a kind blemishes that make something so beautiful and so valuable.

On our recent vacation to Grants Pass, we toured what’s called the Bear Hotel where they had a replica of the Liberty Bell, forged in the same location using the same metal. When they asked to replicate the crack they were told, “absolutely not. That was a one-time occurrence and they will not attempt to replicate it.

Determined, the folks at the Bear Hotel offered the citizens of Grants Pass $500 to whoever could crack it. Countless tried, all failed. It couldn’t be done.

Ironically, it is the weak crack of the Liberty Bell that today reminds us of the strength and freedom of the United States.

So it is with those who place their identity, place their trust solely in Jesus Christ. It is our weaknesses and imperfections that so often reflect His glory greatest serving as a constant reminder of the strength of His unfailing love; how He loves a wretch like me. Simultaneous, pointing us to the freedom we have in Jesus Christ as His light shines so brightly through the once dark holes of our canvas of life.

Others might look upon God’s handiwork that is you and I and say it’s not worth saving. But today I ask, who gets your blessing? I told you how cynical I was with Jacob, but Jesus wasn’t that cynical with me. He set a blessing aside for me and said, “Choose who gets it. Throw it away or keep it, but I give My life so you can keep it.”

(Romans 11:32 NASB) "32 For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all."

Because of Jesus Christ we all have a birthright. There is an inheritance for us all if we want it, but we can’t lay hold of it without the Father’s blessing; and the only way to do that is through Jesus Christ. We have to identify with Him.

(Micah 6:8 NASB) "8 He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?"