Enjoying the Blessing

Let’s look at the list of curses in Deuteronomy 28. Read this entire chapter for yourself, considering whether you are enjoying a blessing or enduring a curse. If we are redeemed children of God, the curses do not belong to us, but the blessings do.

Let us focus particularly on those blessings and curses related to wealth and poverty. “However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all His commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you: 17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed. 29 At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you. 47 Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, 48 therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.” (Deuteronomy 28:15, 17, 29, 47-48 NIV) The Will of God is expressed in verse 47- that we should serve the Lord our God with joy and gladness of heart for the abundance of all things.

The will of God is that we, as His people, should serve Him with joy and gladness for the Abundance of all things He gives to us.