In the Beginning was Blessing

The Blessing

By William M. Self, Sr.

God blessed and said be fruitful and increase

Are you reproducing the blessing?

In the Beginning was Blessing

The first blessing we see in

scripture is in Genesis 1:22.  

It was the 5^th day of creation.

God blessed the creatures in the waters and

in the air, and reading the next few verses

 I think probably, the land creatures.

Then again, maybe He did not bless

the dog or cat that gets in my garbage.

  On the 6^th day, God blessed man.

The words are identical for the

 blessing on the 5^th and 6^th day.

“God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful

and increase in number and fill…”

The blessing came with “fruitfulness and increase”.

Where creatures were to fill their domain, man

was not only to fill the earth, but to rule over it.

To be blessed… is to be favored by God.

Therefore, blessing and grace are the same thing.

God’s blessing came with a command…

 "Be fruitful and increase”

A Blessing… “is the infusion of something

 with holiness, spiritual redemption, divine

will, or one’s hope or approval” Wikipedia

All the water, all the air, all the land

was to be filled with God’s blessing.

Blessed creatures are fruitful and they increase.

The blessing of God, or the grace,

favor of God, is the bases of fruitfulness

and increase in our lives and the earth.

Too often, we want 

increase without the blessing.

What we must remember is blessing

 is the infusion of holiness, spiritual

redemption and divine will.

Our endeavors to be fruitful and

increase must line up with God’s will.

We must also remember God’s

blessing requires our response.

Everything that is truly fruitful and

increases started with God’s blessing.

In the beginning, was God’s blessing.

Let’s go back to the beginning…

God’s blessing and favor

and build from there.

Scripture Reading

Genesis 1:20-23 NIV

And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures,

 and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."

21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and

moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and

 every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and

fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth."

23 And there was evening, and there was morning — the fifth day.

Genesis 1:27-28 NIV

 So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them.

28 God blessed them and said to them,
"Be fruitful and increase in number;

 fill the earth and subdue it.

 Rule over the fish of the sea

and the birds of the air

and over every living creature

that moves on the ground."