Adam didn’t need God to work miracles for him in Eden. He and Eve didn’t have to go to Him for healing or emergency supplies because sickness and lack didn’t exist in the Garden. Everything they needed to live a BLESSED life was available there in abundance and all of it was good.
But, as we all know, Adam and Eve messed things up. They bowed their knee to the devil and disobeyed God by doing the one thing He told them not to do. They ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and their sin opened the door for the curse to come on the earth.
The curse is the opposite of THE BLESSING. It includes everything bad—all sickness and disease, all poverty and lack, every work of the devil that steals, kills and destroys.
The entrance of the curse, however, didn’t change God’s desire for His people. He still wanted them to be BLESSED. So, He made a covenant of BLESSING with Abraham and ultimately sent Jesus to earth to pay the price for our sins so that we could be redeemed from the curse and “the blessing of Abraham” might come on us through Him (Galatians 3:13-14).
“But I thought Jesus just provided us with salvation,” you might say.
He did, but salvation means more than you might think. The word salvation doesn’t just refer to forgiveness and a future in heaven. Salvation means “preservation, material and temporal deliverance from danger and apprehension. It denotes pardon, protection, liberty, health, restoration, soundness and wholeness.”
Look again at those last two words: soundness and wholeness. They sum up God’s will for us in every area of our lives. Spirit, soul and body, He wants us to be wholly BLESSED.
The Apostle Paul confirms this in his prayer in 1 Thessalonians 5:23. “The very God of peace sanctify you wholly;” he writes, “and…your whole spirit and soul and body be [kept sound and complete] unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
You Can’t Be Ignorant and BLESSED
If BLESSING, soundness and wholeness are God’s will for us, as Christians, why aren’t we all experiencing it?
We haven’t experienced it because we don’t know enough about the Word of God.
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