10/25/2026
Weekly Devotion : Blessed To Be A Blessing
“And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing”: Genesis 12:2
It is true that no one can be blessed by God until he is or can be a blessing to others. This is why God told Abraham, ‘I will bless you and thou shall be a blessing…’ (Genesis 12:2). When you make up your mind to live as a blessing to others, especially to the less privileged, then you trigger the release of the Blessing of God upon your life (Psalm 41:1-3). This is another activation key to the blessing; it is the willingness to be a channel of blessing to other people.
God blesses us to the extent in which we agree to be a blessing to others. The extent you are willing to be a blessing is the extent to which you will be blessed by God. This entails being a blessing to the Kingdom of God and to humanity especially the less privileged. When your life is flowing like a river reaching out to the poor, the kingdom, family members, etc., it cannot dry.
God promised to make Abram into a great nation and to bless him to become a blessing to all peoples on earth. That nation was the people of Israel, and the promise was fulfilled through the coming of Jesus Christ. But God's covenant of grace made with Abraham has continued through every generation since then. God's promise to bless people to be a blessing is also for his New Testament people, that is the church of Jesus Christ.
Jesus comforted, taught, and encouraged his disciples…. but then he told them to put to good use all that he had done or said. In effect, “I’ve poured myself into you, now you pass it on to others.” Consider the humble kitchen sponge. Leave it under running water for a short time and it is saturated. No matter how much longer it remains there it can’t absorb more water. It can only absorb more water when it is squeezed out.
So perhaps we can develop a sponge like Christianity. We absorb the grace and power of Jesus and squeeze it out in blessing others. Then and only then can we absorb more of it. In other words, freely absorb, freely squeeze, then freely absorb again. Or more importantly, blessed to be a blessing.
Pastor David Hughes
