Sorrowful Blessings
Proverbs 10:22 Amplified Bible (AMP)
22The blessing of the Lord--it makes [truly] rich, and He adds no sorrow with it [neither does toiling increase it].
How many times have we awakened and immediately began to complain about the day, and all that it held for us to do? How often do we find ourselves facing events with the children or related expenses and find ourselves, sad and thinking maybe we shouldn’t have had children, or maybe that they are just too much? How often do we complain, and find ourselves in a place feeling some kind of way about the job we have the house we must care for or the car we have to put gas in? We have found sorrow and sadness in our blessing and for some of us that blessing has become a burden because of the way we think about it.
It is like that with Kingdom blessings as well. I remember when I first started to operate in the prophetic gifts and in words of wisdom and knowledge, it seemed as if all hell broke loose in my life and I regretted being used of God in that way, because it seemed I immediately became a target on the enemy’s radar, and people’s too. Although I understood that anyway and anytime God uses us it is a blessing, but it cost. But what I did not understand was that God was not adding the sorrow; I was. I was adding the sorrow by worrying, by focusing on the attacks and all of the disruptive tactics of the enemy and who he was using and trying to figure it out instead of allowing God to handle what was out of my realm. Truly the blessings of the Lord do make us rich, which means it adds wealth to our lives, our existence, but it is us who adds the sorrow, by the way we think about what He has blessed us with. It is also us who tries to handle what God did not ask us to handle or to even consider or try to figure out. We will often be the one who stresses our own self out by making family, jobs, houses, and even ministry sorrowful or burdensome. I am learning the significance of what goes on in our mind. Our mind is a powerful tool that is often misused. When I refer to misused I am referring to the fact that we look for what is negative many times before we look to the positives in our situation. Many of us take overwhelming joy and pride in being the victim in situations instead of the victor. We have not learned to focus on the fact that one of God’s most powerful blessings was salvation and through salvation He unlocked the door to so much more. He gave us victory, or death and over all the power of the enemy. He gave us health and healing through the stripes He took, and He was bruised for the iniquities that were ours. He made us above and not beneath and He granted us headship through adoption into His kingdom. He blessed us with all that He is and will ever be, but instead we are focused on our limited abilities in and of ourselves instead of the blessings of the Lord that truly made us rich, and added no sorrow and took away many more.
Today is a wonderful day, full of the blessings of the Lord. The blessings of the Lord will not be without their challenges, brought by the one who is the father of lies, as he seeks to make us believe what he is showing us, but we have a choice to add the sorrow by believing the lies or not. The blessing is not coming with the sorrow. We can give the sorrow to someone who can handle it, who has already overcome it and given us a better and more excellent way. We can choose to apply the answers already supplied to us in the Word of God that renews our minds, our hearts, our lives and gives us relief from those things that seek to take our joy and make our blessings look more like a burden. Remember, God is our Heavenly Father and just as in most cases our natural father wants great things for us, God wants even greater things for us, so why would He bless us with anything that would bring us sorrow and stress? He wouldn’t, let’s get our minds right, along with the rest of us!
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