Worse than frogs...Part 2

I promised to bring you a 6 year old answer:

Dad: Who is worse, us or frogs?

Abby: We are, because we disobey. Frogs just hop around and go "ribbit".

Way to go Abby. Now the other girls? Lets just say that 1 out of 3 is not bad!

This leads me to a reflection on the nature of true "blessing". (go with me here, I'll connect the dots.) Its a word used a lot in Christian circles, but do we use it correctly? A prayer before a meal? An unexpected gift? An affirmation to go and do something? It certainly can mean a lot of different things, but what does the Bible emphasize as the blessing of God?

We first have to see how the Bible emphasizes our need for God's blessing. What is it about man that we need God to bless us. It certainly implies a shortcoming in man, that we cannot bless ourselves but that we need someone else to do it. So what is that shortcoming, that need?

We don't have to look far to see a great disparity between what certain people in the world (you?) need and what it has. We see problems everywhere. We are hungry in need of food. We are poor in need of money. We are sick in need of health. We are lonely in need of friends.

As you have experienced these needs, you know they are very real and if they are not met, severe suffering and death may result. Even so, the Bible does not put these at the top of the list? How is that possible?

“If all the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us altogether and at once, would be nothing compared to the overwhelming problem of God: that He is, what He is like, and what we as moral beings must do about Him." A.W. Tozer

Our greatest problem? God is holy and just and has declared judgement against sin and sinners and those worse than frogs. How are we to escape this? Enter: the blessing of Abraham.

Rom 4:6 - 8 "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED. BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT."

Our deeds have been forgiven, our sins covered. Therefore our sin will not be taken into account. This is our blessing and what a great one indeed.