Have you ever noticed that when God answers prayers, his timing is what’s best for other things or people too? One of the best ways to recognize the work of God is that it is comprehensive in nature.

God wants to bless our lives, but those blessings are usually for the sakes of others as well. We might ask for one blessing only to discover that the answer was so much more “than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us” (Ephesians 3:20). 

Moses told God’s people, “The Lᴏʀᴅ will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land.” We can look at our families, friends, homes, cars, and everything we undertake knowing that God has blessed our lives with more than we ever would have asked for. 

We will never know this side of heaven all that we will exalt God for doing during our lives on earth. We will never fully realize that all we have, even the breath in our lungs, is because God has allowed and ordained it. If your life is abundantly blessed, then you have been blessed for reasons only God fully knows.

It is so important that we remember our blessings aren’t just for our lives. God has blessed us for reasons we don’t yet know so that we can bless others for reasons we may not yet know. Our blessings should impact those around us.

Our money can bless others. Our peace can overflow to others. Our joy can be noticed and desired by others. Our faith, and all the blessings that follow, should cause others to want to know our Lord and submit their lives to him as Lord and Savior.

Living with wisdom is a path to God’s blessings. Our path of blessing will impact much more than we know if we walk it in God’s wisdom and for his good purpose.