I have been a christian for since i was a child. Whenever i hear the word blessings, my mind automatically shuts off. The word blessings just brings no additional joy or excitement to me. It is viewed as common, shallow teaching, prosperity gospel and perhaps doesn't apply to me but only to others.
Why is that so? That is because we have allowed our mindset to be fixed and programmed by our culture, our traditions without knowingly. That whenever, people mentioned about blessings, we conclude that it is negative. Although we do not say it out loud that blessings are not good, but our perspective towards it has a different say.
If we do not acknowledge blessings, then we will not be able to enjoy the Lord's plan for us. It is only when we start see the good things, the healing, the new opportunity, the people around us, as a blessing, then we are wearing our blessings well.
Some of us used to feel guilty for having blessed life. For example,when we see those people who had a hard life, and struggling to survive, some of us will naturally try to downplay how God has bless us. That doesn't bring any honor to God, God wants us to be an example of His goodness. SO, don't hide your joy, peace, victory and possessions. We don't have to dress poorly to look poor and depressed to show people we are humble.
When we wear our blessings well, giving God all the credit, talking about His goodness, thanking for what He has done, that is what brings honor to God.
How to wear our blessing well? By proclaiming that God has been so good to me, that i can't keep it to myself, I got share it. I was once lost, but now am found, i used to be confused, but now i m in my right mind. I used to be depressed, bitter, discouraged and angry, but now I am joyful, confident, excited about the things to come. That is wearing our blessing well.
Don't allow negative, jealous, critical, judgmental, bitter, and angry person try to make us feel guilty, ashamed and embarrassed. For sometimes they try to convince you that you are supposed to drag your feet, to show yourself defeated, depressed and never have anything, to show God that you are really humble, and that you really love Him. THIS is a religious judgmental spirit. If we want to please God, DON'T drag yourself and show that you are defeated, depressed and poor, WEAR your blessings well, be proud of who you are and What God has done for you in your life.
There was a preacher, who grew up during the great depression. He has developed a poverty mindset, and was even taught in a seminary that we must be poor to show that we are holy. The first church that he pastored, make sure that he stays holy by keeping him poor. He and his wife made $115 and have to raise 5 children. One time they have a guest minister in their church, he kept that man in their house for a week. After the Sunday service, a business man from the congregation came up to this preacher and offered him a cheque of $1000. $1000 back then is like $10,000 now. The businessman said, I want you to have this cheque, because you have extra expenses by keeping the guest minister in your home. The preacher had been so programmed with this poverty mentality, and false sense of humility, he took the cheque by the very top corner, like it was poisoned. He said, Oh no brother, I can never keep this for myself, we must put this in the church offering. And he placed it in the offering bag. He knew that deep down inside, he was supposed to have that.
Then one day, he broke out of this poverty mindset after he read a scriptures in Psalms. The Lord takes pleasure in the prosperity of His children. He begin to understand that it brings a smile on God's face when we live an abundant life, when we prosper in our health, in our relationships and in our finances. He got a new vision, he stopped feeling guilty for God's blessing. He started learning how to receive God's blessing.
We have to fight that religious spirit that says we are supposed to be poor, broke and defeated to prove that we are humble. When we are poor, broke and defeated proves that we are poor, broke and defeated!!! Nobody is going to want what we have. We can be poor, broke and defeated without serving God.
We are supposed to be EXAMPLES of what it means to live for the MOST HIGH GOD. We should be so blessed, so happy and so peaceful that people want what we have. If we continue to think that being poor is the way to show how holy we are, then our thinking is limiting what God can do in our life.
We have to enlarge our vision. IF we want to bring a smile in God's face, have an abundant life mentality.Our God is not a poor God. It is our mentality that shows other people that we are poor and therefore reflect that our God is poor.
Sometimes we are worried that if we have so much blessing, people are going to view me differently.
If you are worried about everybody liking you, you are going to have a problem of being blessed. Because when we are blessed, the haters come out, when we step up to the new level, the back biter shows up. When you wear that blessings well, don't be surprised if it draws jealousy out of people. We got to get to the point, when we say, not arrogantly, but in humility I am going to wear this blessing well regardless of who doesn't like it. LIFE is way too short to worry about what everybody thinks.
If your friend judge you and being critical, then we need new friends. Only true friends celebrates you, cheer you on, true friends are happy when you succeed. True friends will not remind you of your failures but celebrates with you and cheer you on when you are putting an effort to overcome and succeed.
What would have happen, if Ruth worried about what everybody thinks about her. What if she said, I can't take this wheat for free, because these workers worked very hard for it. They are going to be jealous, they are going to talk bad about me. But she did not think this way, because she understood that favor is not always fair. She did not apologize, she did not hide her blessings. Because she acknowledge this is the Lord's doing. She wore her blessings well.
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