“Concentrate on counting your blessings and you’ll have little time to count anything else.” – Woodrow Kroll
Two individuals, walking down the grey pavement that provided a path from the Employee Parking Lot to the workplace. are engaged in a conversation. At some point, one of the individuals says, “I’m waiting on my blessing.” Puzzled, the other person pauses for a moment. Then, after a few brief seconds of silence, perhaps deciding if he should respond, he says to his co-worker, “If you are talking about some specific way you want the Lord to bless you, I get it.” He continues, “However, if you are talking about waiting to be blessed in a general sense, you need to ask yourself some questions and ponder on your understanding of blessings.” The person who had stated that he was waiting on his blessing says, “I just want the Lord to bless me in a noticeable way.” This caused the other person in the conversation to say, “Perhaps you are just not noticing the way that the Lord has noticeably blessed you already.” The person waiting on his blessing says, “How so?” The coo-worker seemed puzzled and paused at first, then he proceeds to pose a number of questions: “Didn’t the Lord wake you up this morning? Didn’t you get to your destination without hurt or harm? Didn’t you have shelter last night, and don’t you have clothes on your back and shoes on your feet?” The person waiting his blessing gets ready to respond, but the other individual raises His hand, motioning his fellow employee not to say a word. He then proceeds to ask a plethora of pointed questions, including: “Didn’t I see you pulling a SUV into a parking space this morning? Didn’t I see you walking in with a lunch bag so big that I thought it was a book bag or a carry-on luggage? Didn’t you just get off your cellphone telling your lovely wife, ‘I love you too and to tell the children to have a good day?’” He ends his diatribe or discourse, filled with words too penetrating and purposeful to be called a dialogue, by saying, “The Lord is blessing you and keeping you right now with every breath you take and every step you make!” Silence surrounds the two co-workers, but surely a seed had been planted. Yes, a profound truth had been presented. Personal evangelism had been evident.
Now, if by chance you are like the person above, the one who said, “I’m waiting on my blessing,” I suggest that you take a personal inventory of how the Lord has continually blessed you today, as well how He has already blessed you in the past, and in fact, how He is blessing you right now! Think about it and then change your demeanor as you go through the day. Be blessed!
“Many, O Lord my God, are the wonderful works which You have done,
and Your thoughts toward us; there is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of your wonders, they would be too many to count.” (Psalm 40:5 Amplified Bible)
Committed to the climb,
Mark L. King
Oh what a day that is already full of blessings. He did wake me up this morning, and that is something I never take for granted. That in itself include so many other blessings, such as, being able to get yourself up out of the bed, being able to walk, being able to see, being able to talk; oh the list goes on and on even before you get out of your room–that in itself is another blessing. Don’t wait on your blessing, count your blessings that have already been given you. Hallelujah, Lord, for all You do for me.
The Lord’s blessings are all around you, in you, and more are coming. As Pastor says, “I promise you!”