Burdened with Blessings

Burdened with Blessings

(#025 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)

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The Words of Yahweh!

If you return to Me and obey My voice:

I will bring you back from captivity;

I will prosper you and multiply you;

I will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants;

You will love Me with all your heart and with all your soul and you will live;

I will put curses on your enemies and on those who hate you and persecute you;

I will make you abound in all the work of your hands and the fruit of your body;

I will increase you in all ways for good;

I will again rejoice over you…

…if you obey My voice, to keep My commandments and My statutes which are written in this Book of the Law! (Deuteronomy 30:1-10)

Have I not given you ample opportunity to be blessed My child? Have I not made the blessings bountiful and ripe with new opportunities? Therefore, I implore you; Let no one cheat you of your reward…being vainly puffed up by [your] fleshly mind. (Colossians 2:18) I know your propensity to satisfy the lusts of your flesh. And for this reason, I know that to entice you with blessings alone is not enough. Because the carnal mind is enmity against [Me]; for it is not subject to the [My] Law, nor indeed can be. (Romans 8:7) Therefore, as you naturally stray from My commands, there must be consequences; there must be a cost for your disobedience (Read Deuteronomy 28:15-68).

I tell you these things so that you understand the burden of the blessings available to you on every side. The burden is this; the road is slim and the curses (consequences that steal inner peace) are meant to keep you on the narrow path that leads to life (Matthew 7:13-14). Do you understand My plan? Can you now see how, like an eagle with her young, I protect you and intend to prosper you? The only way to do so is to keep you under My wings [protective custody; commandments] (Psalm 91:4).

Your willful sins are truly a burden to Me, for what Father wants to continually chasten a child created for love? The mature in faith understand that My blessings come through obedience. That is why I say, “I will rejoice over you if you obey My voice, to keep My commandments and My statutes which are written in this Book of the Law!”

My blessings are meant to appeal to the dreams I have placed in your heart. Each blessing will reveal the perfect plan for your life, and then extend to My entire body. Be mature My child, for the time is short, and My Body depends on it.