I still can’t say, “September 11th” and consider it just another day. But it is. There are news stories, video clips, and other reminders of that fateful day. But this year it is probably just the day that follows September 10. 

We might feel better if we believed that our country was truly “one nation under God.” Our money tells us the truth we need to know and trust. God loves to bless his people whenever he can. 

The prophet Isaiah told his people, “If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.” Does God still bless nations for the same reasons he blessed Israel? 

The new covenant was a new agreement between God and his people. Israel was supposed to be a land so abundantly blessed that all the people of the world would see the blessings and know Jehovah was the true God. The Israelites’ faith was to be the light that pointed all nations to their Creator.

The new covenant was ushered in after the old covenant was broken. Many of the Israelites had not been willing to honor and worship God and had not been obedient to his law. They had been able to “eat the good of the land,” but that blessing would not continue. 

The famine would come. The Assyrians would come. The land would be taken by others and the Israelites would no longer live under God’s covenant blessings. September 11 was a reminder that, under the new covenant, God’s blessings don’t belong to a land; they belong to people who have placed their faith in God’s Son.

God blesses a land when God’s people live with his blessings. We live with God’s blessings for the same reasons Israel did. “If we are willing and obedient” to God’s new covenant, we will “eat the good of the land.” Christians are the light of the world. Our blessings are supposed to show others that Jehovah is the one true God.

Living with wisdom is a path to God’s blessings. Your faith can bring blessings to your life and to the lives of those around you. We need to be “willing and obedient” to God and our blessings will become a blessing to our land. That has always been God’s wise plan for his children.