Coming in and Going out...

Verses 4-6: The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.  You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

Here are listed the specifics of the areas where you will be blessed if you simply follow the Lord and his commands (again – summed up in loving him with all your heart and in loving your neighbor as yourself.)

Your children will reap the blessings that overtake you, simply because they carry your name.  That for which you work hard labor to achieve will be blessed, and even all of the possessions that are yours.  The things you work to achieve with your hands, in creativity and in provision for your family, will be blessed.

And I really love the last part – you will be blessed coming and going.

Can you see this picture? 

You rise in the morning and tend to your family. You work hard during the day being creative and providing for those that you love.  You take care of all of those things God has entrusted into your hands.  You leave the house and you return again, over and over, living your life – hearing his voice – and obeying his commands as you move.

And in all that you – you are blessed. 

Did you know that the definition of “blessed” is to be made holy or consecrated?  It doesn’t mean that you will have millions in the bank or never stub your toe.  But it does mean that whatever comes your way, you are being perfected in his sight to be just like him. 

And that is what being blessed is all about.