3.049 Thou Shalt be a Blessing

In Matthew 5, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth and the light of the world, reminding us that our lives are meant to preserve, illuminate, and point others to Him. This season on Savory Salt, we'll walk through the Old Testament, one verse and one thought each day. Perhaps these moments will add greater savor and brighter light to our lives as we seek to truly live as savory salt.

Hello, my friends. It's a new day with new opportunities. Choose you this day whom you will serve.

Have you ever had an angel experience? You ever been an angel for somebody else? I think today's verse is going to have us thinking a little bit more about the angels that we can have and be in the lives of others.

We are reading this week Genesis chapters 12 through 17 as well as Abraham chapters 1 and 2. And while Abraham chapter 2 would cover this more expansively, I wanted to use our verse for today from Genesis chapter 12. We get kind of these skip over the top versions of some of the verses, and yet this one is short, sweet, powerful.

It does not go in depth the way Abraham chapter 2 does, so you want to make sure that you kind of cross it. But it hits home and does so perfectly. Our verse for today is Genesis 12 verse 2.

This is the Lord talking to Abram, who we know is going to be Abraham. He says this: "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing." Now many times when we're talking about Abraham, we're talking about those three first pieces. We talk about the Abraham great nation, right?

The Hebrews, the Jews, how they become this great nation. We talk about the blessings of the Lord through the covenants that they make. We talk about the name of Abraham, again, being the father of several different religions even today.

But it's the last sentence that I want to focus on because it's the last sentence that The Bible is such a strong link in the Abrahamic Covenant. And thou shalt be a blessing. How many times do we think about our covenants not being blessings in our lives, but how those covenants enable us to be the blessings in somebody else's life?

I've thought about all sorts of different videos and examples that I want to share with you guys as I looked into this over the last week or two. The Church, for example, has an insane—if you search anything about Church Welfare Square—the number of lives that can be blessed through the Church and its members keeping their covenants is astounding. We're not talking about hundreds of people or thousands of people.

We're talking about millions of lives being impacted because there are so many willing to keep the covenants that they make with the Lord. You and I can be in that story as well. It also got me thinking about a recent interview that I watched.

And while you don't have to watch the whole interview, what I did is put a link here that I hope—I've never tried this before—I hope the link goes directly to the story that this songwriter, Emma Nissen, that I kind of came across this interview with her. She sings, she's got a gorgeous voice by the way, so just enjoy it either way. I set this link inside of here for her to tell her story behind writing a song called "Angel" and the angels in our lives.

My friends, I love the covenant that the Lord makes with Abraham. Yes, because it blesses our lives as we make those covenants, but also, and perhaps even more so, because of the number of lives we can bless by keeping our covenants. It truly is an example: because I have been given much, I too must give, and do so in an amplified and magnified way.

I know that I've had times in my life where I've had direct impact from the angels around. I know my life has been blessed because of the covenants that I have made with my Heavenly Father. And I also know that those covenants have opened the door for me to be a blessing to others' lives as well.

I hope that you and I keep the perspective that the covenants we make with the Lord will bless our lives. That's all for today, my friends. You and I have come here for such a time as this.

Step forward in faith and let's be savory salt. We will be here tomorrow, and we hope...