When You Are Blessed…Do You Remember the Blessor?

When things are going wrong, after we’ve tried all human resources, then and only then we fall down and cry out to G-d…”help me.”  Even those who profess to not believe can be heard uttering that cry.  Now that’s a given, I too will admit in trying and challenging times I cry out to Him for help or direction.  I don’t ever forget, even though I might delay going before Him, that I can turn to Him and seek guidance or whatever it is I seek.  I am learning to seek Him first and not to run to every Tom, Dick or Sally…ever other weak and fallible human just like me…for the help I need.  Add to that I am learning and not just head knowledge, but believing, that all that I need does indeed reside in this human body.  It somewhat lines up with the new wave of today, with all of the organizations and folks seeking the spiritual, telling you and I that it is within us.

What we are hearing these days is an old thing in new terms.  Yahshua told us quite clearly, “The kingdom of God is within (you & I).”  God and presumably His kingdom, are spirit, therefore the Spirit (or kingdom) resides within all of us, because we are made in His image – who is Spirit.

Now today was a day of blessing for me and I won’t bother with the details – the point is I was blessed.

On my drive home from work the thought came to me, “Don’t forget while relishing in your blessing….don’t forget who it is that has caused this blessing to be bestowed upon you.”

In your blessings, do you get so carried away, when things are just right….that all of a sudden, you’re no longer calling out to G-d, no longer taking the time to have a conversation with Him?  I admit that I have repeatedly fallen into that category; rolling along on the wonderful gifts bestowed upon me, not a care in the world – totally forgetting Him.

We are so much more vulnerable when life is going along smoothly.  Forgetting our need for His care and guidance, we barrel along and will eventually stumble down a path, that had we been continuing in our journey of being present and aware of His presence, we would have had eyes to see and ears to know and would not have gone down that path.

I need to beware of those times; need to remember to be ever present and conscious of my need for His guidance even more – that I not be blinded by the false gold and glitter of the world.