Random thought:
When we ask for God to bless us what are we really asking for? Are we asking God to give us what we want? Are we asking God to do for us what we asked? Or Are we asking God for his favor upon us, his will to be done in our lives?

If we are asking God for his favor to be upon us, and if God says He knows the plans that He has for us to give us a future and a hope, then we need to recognize that sometimes God’s blessing upon us is a NO answer.

I don’t know about anybody else but when I ask God to order my steps for me then that means for me that whether a door is opened or closed to me it is a blessing.

When I ask God to bless me, then I am acknowledging that God is in control and can see what I cant. So to close a door is just as much a blessing as to open a door. To protect me from something is a huge blessing.

When I ask for Gods hand of favor to rest upon me, I have come to recognize that this means that I won’t be able to do what many can. It means that I won’t have as many “perceived” freedoms as others do because of the accountability of God’s favor.

We like to say “favor ain’t fair” but rarely does someone tell you that favor isn’t necessarily easy because of the discipline required of the one being favored.

I once saw an article about a boy who killed some people while drunk driving. He was a little rich kid. And he was not charged with the murder. Insteas he was found to be disabled. His disability was that no one ever said no to him. No one ever disciplined him. That was the craziest story that I ever heard in my life. Yet I consider it now when I consider that people only want to hear YES and some erroneously think that a blessing means that you will receive a Yes answer only.

I have one question to ask, maybe two…
A little something to think about…

Would you say that Jesus, as a man on earth before his death, was blessed?

Yet in the garden of Gethsemane when Jesus prayed to God and asked God to remove the cup from him (aka bless him, favor him) and he said “yet not as I will, but as you will” …

God did bless him. God blessed him by sending to him angels to minister to him and strengthen him for what he had to go thru. But God did not remove the cup even though Jesus asked three times.

I think that some people miss the blessing because it doesn’t look like what they think it should look like.

I’ve heard people say, after having received what they asked for which they called ‘a blessing’ that you better be careful what you ask for because you might get it.

Ok so what are you now implying? Was what you received not a blessing after all? Say it ain’t so…

I just think that some really don’t understand what a blessing from God is because a blessing from God doesn’t necessarily mean that we will get what we want.

Father God,
May your will be done in my life and not my own. I will receive your answer even when it is a NO answer because I recognize that your blessing is a protection for me, a covering for me, a reward for obedience to YOU. So I ask in the name of Jesus that Your will be done in my life.