What if living for a blessed life is falling short of God’s best for us. What if life is more than obtaining blessings to live an abundant life. I think living the blessed life has way more to do with who we are becoming than all we are obtaining.

 

Before I got a deeper revelation of God’s grace for my life, I would wonder why God wasn’t blessing me. I wondered, when all the promises that I knew he gave me in the word were true, why He wasn’t blessing me. If I would just persevere, one day I will get my breakthrough! And then after such a long wait, I wondered if he really even loved me. I saw others get promotions when I’d been super faithful, had there much longer, and felt I had more talent. Yet I kept hearing, “God will promote you, just keep on serving and you will get your breakthrough.”

 

Why did God favor others more than me? Maybe I needed to learn humility and patience.

 

But then, after meeting a few ladies who made an impact on my life, I asked the Lord to reveal what his grace really is. And he showed me how righteous I really am in Christ and how all my old nature is dead. I discovered that I was still trying to please God by my behavior and didn’t even know it!

Now I’m tired of hearing how God can change everything in our life so that we can be blessed. What I would rather hear is when you put your faith in Christ, everything in your life changes because all that you were up until that point dies. Meaning your old nature dies. But what I see in some of our Christian circles is: now that you have put your faith in Christ, God will give you blessings to live an abundant life. “But that’s true!” we declare. Doesn’t God want wholeness in every area of our life? Well of course he does, he’s a good Father!

But what I see in some of our Christian circles is: now that you have put your faith in Christ, God will give you blessings to live an abundant life!

“But that’s true!” we declare. Doesn’t God want wholeness in every area of our life? Well of course he does, he’s a good Father!

However, there is a super subtle twist here and we may not even catch it. The difference is the desire for God to prove his love by giving us promotions, or health or whole relationships. This is a result that I believe many of us are not even aware of because it sounds right. It’s a result of not really knowing how righteous we are in Christ, not being secure (rooted and grounded) in His love. And when we do not see our circumstances change, we wonder if God loves us. And when we don’t see God deliver, we wonder where we messed up and some even turn angry toward God. At least this is where I found myself for years as I circled the same mountains of circumstances.

What if when God says he wants to bless us, it really is an inward peace, never doubting his love, regardless of circumstances. What if His blessings are the heavenly riches that we have access to on this earth? What if when hard seasons befall us, it turns out that it isn’t so difficult to walk through them because we really have a solid understanding of how much he loves us and that He’s not punishing us for our sins.

And the biggest what-if to this point is what if blessings and wholeness is a natural fruit in every area of our life? Not something we have to strive to receive from Him. And that our Daddy-God really is a good Father wanting to bless us? God is love, and love can only give.

So I always want to know the how. If it sounds like something good, how do I get there?

I briefly mentioned that the problem really is not knowing who we are in Christ. The first step to really getting solid in Christ is to get a revelation of His righteousness, which was a free gift that we received upon salvation.