Living in God’s Radical Blessings
Adapted from The Confident Woman
If you will listen diligently to the voice of the Lord your God, being watchful to do all His commandments which I command you this day, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you heed the voice of the Lord your God.
Anyone who wants to live in the radical, outrageous, chase-you-down-the-street-and-overtake-you blessings of God has to do something to receive them. We must realize that the blessing package described in Deuteronomy 28:1–14 is conditional. They come from a willingness to obey God whether He tells us to do something in our heart or in His Word.
If we struggle with why God isn’t blessing us, it may be because God has already told us the things we need to do to get our life in order and to receive the radical blessings. We really don’t need to whine and complain about doing what God tells us to do because anything that He tells us to do, He gives us the ability to do. The problem may be that we just haven’t done what He has told us to do. Perhaps more than ever we need to get up and get going. Sometimes we have to go through in obedience and just keep moving forward.
Prayer of the Day: Lord, search my heart and show me any area where I am not doing what You have shown me. Make it clear in my heart, and I will be quick to obey, amen.
