Devotion:
Read Genesis 12:1-3.
As God so often does in the Bible, God seeks a person or group to represent God to the world and serve God’s mission in the world. God seeks ministry partners to become God’s people, constantly learning and growing in better understanding God so they can help others come to know this God.
God invites Abram into a covenantal relationship that has a worldwide purpose: God wants to bless all the people of the earth. God did not pick out Abram or choose his offspring because he liked them better or thought more highly of them than anyone else. God had a mission for him (and them). As we often like to say it, “They were blessed to be a blessing.”
Through Jesus Christ, God restored and renewed that covenant with you and me and everybody else. Jesus fulfills the covenant and invites us into this relationship, in order to continue that same mission. Now everyone is invited to begin and deepen their own relationship with God so that they become part of God’s people and help to carry out that mission. We are blessed to be a blessing.
God seeks you as a ministry partner. God seeks you to help bless all the people of the earth. But you don’t have to bless them all yourself. Just bless all those you can. God will take care of the rest.
Personal Worship Option:
Here is an optional prayer to offer: God who seeks to bless everyone, help me to remember how blessed I am and to count my blessings every so often. More importantly, guide and help me to use my blessings to bless as many people as I can. Through Christ, Amen.
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