To Receive Blessings from God Through Obedience Part 2

The blessings from God upon Job for the work of his hands were truly blessed. Job who received God’s blessing at the beginning of his walk with God and through extremely hard times. Job was a man living in the land of Uz, in what is now Arabia. (Job1:1) God said concerning Job: “There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?” (Job 1:8) Then Satan challenged Job’s integrity: Have You not made a hedge around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. “But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” (Job 1:10-11)

After Satan, (through various means) took away first Job’s livestock and servants, then his children (Job 1:13-19), Job never charged God with folly or wrongdoing. Neither did he turn away from God, even when pressure was brought upon him by his wife and others, Job continually kept to God’s Word. (Job 1:20-22) He spoke the truth about God. (Job 42:8) He accepted reproof for being anxious to declare himself righteous and neglecting to vindicate God (Job 32:2), and he acknowledged his sins to God. (Job 42:1-6)

As an example for Christians who follow the course of obedience, we see the blessings from God through the book of Job. At the end of his faithful course, under testing, God constituted Job a priest for his three companions who had contended with him, and through God’s blessing, Job was restored to his former status. He again had a fine family and God blessed Job with twice as much as he had before. All his relatives and former associates returned to pay respect to him and to bring him gifts. (Job 42:7-15) The blessings from God were definitely upon Job, and he lived to see his children and grandchildren for four generations. (Job 42:16)

Through the prophet Ezekiel, God pointed to Job as an example of righteousness. (Ezek 14:14, 20) His patient endurance of suffering is set before Christians as a pattern, and his blessed outcome is pointed to as magnifying God, for the Lord is very compassionate and merciful. (James 5:11) The account of Job’s trialsome experience and God’s blessing gives great comfort and strength to Christians, and many Bible principles are highlighted and illuminated by the book of Job.

The blessings from God concerning Noah and his family. Noah was faithful and obedient to God and therefore wining God‘s favor to receiving His blessings. He proved himself faultless among his contemporaries, for Noah walked with God.” (Gen 6:8-9) It was due to the possession of strong faith that Noah, in implicit obedience, did “according to all that God had commanded him.” (Gen 6:22) It was because of his unwavering faith in God that the Christian writer of the book of Hebrews included him in that “so great a cloud of witnesses.” He wrote: “By faith Noah, after being given divine warning of things not yet beheld, showed godly fear and constructed an ark for the saving of his household; and through this faith he condemned the world, and he became an heir of the righteousness that is according to faith.” (Heb 11:7, !2:1)

When Noah and his family came out of the ark after the flood was over, God’s blessings were upon Noah and his sons, for God said to them: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. (Gen 9:1) And as we can see how great God’s blessings are through this scripture. The blessings from God makes one rich. And He adds no sorrow with it. (Prov 10:22) God’s blessing comes to those whom He approves by protecting, prospering, guiding, giving success and supplying their needs, with a beneficial outcome for them.

As to the blessings from God in Abraham’s life. James wrote that Abraham backed up his faith by righteous works and therefore he was called the friend of God. (James 2:21-23) Of vital importance to all mankind is the blessings concerning Abraham and his Seed because he obeyed God‘s voice. (Gen. 12:3; 18:18; 22:18) God blessed Abraham and Sarah by miraculously renewing their reproductive powers, enabling them to have a son in their old age.(Gen.17:16; 21:2) He prospered Abraham and used him in a pictorial way to foreshadow greater things.(Gal. 4:21-26) Therefore , God’s blessing in providing a seed for Abraham has higher significance in the promise that the people of all nations will be blessed by means of the One Isaac foreshadowed, Jesus Christ. Gal. 3:8, 14; Acts 3:25, 26, Heb. 6:13-20.

Now that we looked over some of the blessings from God through the lives of Joseph, Job, Noah, and Abraham, would it be fair to say we are truly blessed when we wake up in the morning? We know that God is there to guide us safely through the day, there to pick us up when we fall and give us strength to continue on, put a meal on the table and bless us with good health. He then goes on to bless us with healthy children and lets us grow old enough to see our grandchildren and most important of all, He brings us safely to our eternal home of peace, joy and love.

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