A good way to be blessed

“And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”

The Lord commanded Abraham (Abram) and he did what the Lord told him to do. In this case there was no end point and no specific goal. The Lord just told him to go and he would learn more about the destination along the way. However, the Lord made Abraham a promise that followed directly from his complete obedience. The Lord is neither random nor arbitrary and always works towards a plan but His ways are higher than our ways (Isaiah 55: 9). We can’t always understand what the Lord has planned but we can always be sure that the plan will be good for us in the end (Deuteronomy 8: 16). However, Abraham was promised that his descendants would be a great nation, today there are about 14 million Jews in the world and among them they have won 129 Nobel prizes and there have been 7 world chess champions taking up approximately 55% of the time since its inception in 1886. On top of this more than 10 million Jews have murdered over the last two thousand years. They are a great nation and have made a great contribution to the world. Their greatest contribution, however, is the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ was a Jew of the tribe of Judah and every single family on the earth has been blessed through His life, death and resurrection. It is a sobering reminder to us, however, that we should bless the Jews for if we bless them they will be blessed but if we curse them we will be cursed. The British Empire was great because they didn’t persecute the Jews but when they betrayed the Jews before the second World War they began the process that led to the loss of their great Empire. There is an old middle eastern saying, after Saturday comes Sunday. Every Christian should do everything to protect the Jews because they stand between us and our own destruction.

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)