God’s Blessing is Personal

The Blessing

By William M. Self, Sr.

When God told the priest to speak His blessing He made it personal

"The Lord bless you ..keep you… shine upon you…

gracious to you… face toward you... give you peace." 

Numbers 6:22-27

 

God’s Blessing is Personal

Last night I was thinking of the 7 billion people on earth.

Every single one of them was doing something.

I wondered how many were doing

something that pleased God.

Then I wondered what it would be that pleased God.

You might have thought I was in prayer.

But I was actually watching a

hockey game looking at the crowd.

I had family at the game being played

 in Florida cheering for the other team.

But as the cameras scanned the crowd, I never saw

them even though I know where their seats are.

Who does God notice and why

does God notice a person?

7 billion people on earth and that is

 not the people who lived before us.

When God told Aaron and the priest to bless the people,

He said…

“This is how you are to bless the Israelites”

"So they will put my name on the Israelites,

and I will bless them."

 

 

The Blessing is God’s personal blessing.

The priest were to speak God’s

words not their own.

In my studies of this blessing, I have

found others with greater understanding

 of the Hebrew language point out...

Though God’s Blessing is spoken in crowds,

 it is spoken in the singular.

"The Lord bless you ..keep you… shine upon you…

gracious to you… face toward you... give you peace."

WOW!!! 7 billion people and it is all about “YOU”.

“For God so loved the world that he gave

 his one and only Son, that whoever believes

 in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

John 3:16 NIV

Aren’t you Blessed?

 

Scripture Reading

Numbers 6:22-27 NIV

22 The Lord said to Moses, 23 "Tell Aaron and his sons,

 'This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:

24 "'"The Lord bless you

and keep you;

25 the Lord make his face shine upon you

and be gracious to you;

26 the Lord turn his face toward you

and give you peace." ' 

27 "So they will put my name on the Israelites,

and I will bless them."