17 “The Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.”
Genesis 24:1
O that this might be said of us as we review our lives and our standing before God. To know His keeping power in all areas of our life is blessing indeed. Our physical bodies, our mental capacities and our spiritual standing. To know we are fully kept by God is a blessed estate and a place where we can reach out to others and support them with the comfort that we are comforted by.
“… who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”
2 Corinthians 1:4
How rich a state we are in when we can rejoice in the Lord with great joy and blessing. How useful we can be for His glory and the blessing of others around us, saint and sinner alike.
What a bolster to faith are the blessing of God as we consider all His purposes and designs in our life and see His faithful hand on our days. Abraham was the friend of God and so also can we be, as we succumb to all His decrees and obey His word. This is the key to godly living and to know that blessing of God on all our ways.
Let us humble ourselves before Him and in deep contrition confess our sin and set out on a life of daily sacrifice and follow Him.
Daily fragment of grace 