Obedience Brings Blessing

Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. — Deuteronomy 28:5
For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value for all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come. — 1 Timothy 4:8
Charles Spurgeon

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Charles Spurgeon

Summary: Obedience brings the Lord’s blessing upon what we obtain through diligence, whether we use it at once or save it. Even if our provision is scarce and we receive only what we need for each day, we can trust in Him, as Israel did when they received manna daily. If we have reserves, we need His blessing all the more: acquiring, preserving, managing, and using them bring cares that can take hold of the heart. Let us ask the Lord to bless our possessions and help us use them for His glory, without making them our gods or allowing our savings to endanger the salvation of our souls.

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Obedience brings a blessing upon all the provisions that our diligence supplies. What comes in and goes out at once, like the fruit in the basket intended for immediate use, will be blessed; and what remains with us for a longer season will likewise receive a blessing.

Perhaps our portion amounts to no more than a handbasketful. We have very little for breakfast and a scant bite for lunch in our basket when we leave for work in the morning. That is well, for the Lord’s blessing is promised to that basket. If we have no stores and only what we carry from hand to mouth, receiving each day that day’s provision, we are as well off as Israel; for when the Lord sustained His chosen people, He gave them manna only for the day. What more did they need? What more do we need?

But if we have a reserve, how much more we need the Lord to bless it! For there is the care of obtaining it, the care of keeping it, the care of managing it, the care of using it; and unless the Lord blesses it, these cares will gnaw at our hearts until our possessions become our gods and our cares break out in gangrenous sores.

O Lord, bless our possessions. Enable us to use them for Your glory. Help us to keep worldly things in their proper place, and may our savings not endanger the salvation of our souls.

Source: The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith. Translated by Allan Roman.

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