If you are a parent -
You know you can have several children and love them ALL with just as much love.....but that doesn't mean they will all receive the same amount of blessings from you.
Not because you don't want to give them the same amount of blessing as each other, but because they have made themselves unavailable to receive them from you.
A few examples:
Take for instance-
Child#1 -The child who still lives at home and still spends time with you; helps with chores, remembers your special days etc.
Child #2 -The child who has just gone off to college or since moved out on their on and -
a) The one who takes time to return your emails and telephones calls and just calls you on their own for the heck of it! AND comes home on break and when ever they can just to see you.
b) The other child who never answers you emails or phones calls or remembers your special days; pretty much never comes home or keeps in touch any more at all.
Child #3 - Then there is, of course the child who fits some where in between all of these.
NOW.....You love all your children with all your heart. Each one no less than the other. Your desire as a parent is to shower them with blessings to let them know this. However....if they are not around OR available this isn't always possible.
Why? Well.....
Child #1 - This child is easy to bless, (convenient) because they are always around. So it may "seem" like they are being favored. But not really....they just happened to be at the right place at the right time!....With YOU!
Child #2/a - The child who has just gone off to college who takes time to return your emails and telephones calls and just calls you on their own for the heck of it! AND comes home on break and when ever they can just to see you....THIS CHILD is also easy to bless.... just a little harder to GET THE BLESSING TO....because of the distance. But We parents can get creative!
Child #2/b - Now THIS child, the one who never answers you emails or phones calls or remembers your special days; pretty much never comes home any more at all.....Hmmmm...NOT SO EASY to bless....WHY?....As much as a parent desire to bless THIS child it is hard because we don't know if the blessing is actually getting to the child. Since we never hear from the child. So we hesitate and wait to hear from the child....first. Not as a punishment or anything, simply because we don't want to waste a blessing by sending it off and having it get "lost" in the mail and not even know if it reached it destination.
Child #3 -And of course blessing this child is on a case by case basis. Never knowing from week to week, where this child is. Then finding them close to our hearts allows us to shower them in blessings. Always a joy!
Anyone who knows me....knows I am all about analogies.
And ...This one is all about Papa God and us.
Have you ever wondered ... why it seems that some receieve the "blessings " of God in their life so much more than others?
Or
Why there are "seasons" of blessings in our lives?
Or
Why doesn't God just answer my prayer?.... Provide our NEED?.... Heal us?
I was thinking about this very thing just yesterday while I was praying for my family, and the Lord gave me this analogy, about "the family".
The Lord DESIRES to bless each and every one of us the same!.... But where are we?
If we took a moment right now to look deep into our souls, and hearts, could we honestly say we are close to the Lord, sitting quietly at His feet; attentive to HIM and available to receive what He desires to Bless us with?
I know I want to be in a place where I can receive what ever the Lord has for me.
Won't you join me?
"For You"
Love for you all I have
Not one but each I choose
I wish to shower blessing
Desire streams from me to you
I love you all each the same
My desire never shall be undone
Some come and some stay away
Free will is my gift of love
My choice my life eternal
Turn to me and live
By: Amycolleen
Shalom!
