³ I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.

Genesis 12:3 is the initial promise that God gives to Abram that He is going to pour out blessing on him and his descendants.  God says I’m going to bless you and those who bless you. 

God is pouring out blessing on Abram and on you.  He does this so we can be a blessing too others. The point is, “And in you”, so in you, Abram, “all the families of the Earth shall be blessed.” 

This is the very beginning of the people of Israel, Abraham, the father of God’s people receiving this blessing from God, but it was never about just the people of Israel. God’s blessing did not stop with Abraham, and the same is to be true of the Christian.  God’s blessing is intended to spread through His people and by His people.

“Through you, all the families of the Earth shall be blessed.” This wasn’t just about Abram’s family. This was about the blessing of God being made known among all the peoples of the Earth.  God was establishing Abram as the conduit of his blessing, as the means through which his blessing would spread to the ends of the Earth.

When God blesses us, it’s for the spread of his blessing.  Just as God shows grace to us, it’s not intended to stop with us.  It is intended to spread through us that more and more people might know his grace. They’re intended to spread through you. 

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Prayer:

Let us pray, “God, today, help us to take the blessings you have given us in our lives and use them for the spread of your grace and your glory through our lives to bless others

Father God, we pray that the Gospel would spread through us today.  Help us to share the Gospel with people around us today. Amen