READ:
NUMBERS 23:19-24
Blessings
are irreversible in nature. However, God may be forced to cancel or reverse
your blessings if you fall below expectations and fail to make amends. This
should not be taken as a sweeping statement. Let me clear this point. No man
can reverse the blessing that God has given you. This is clearly stated in our
text: “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that he should
repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not
make it good? Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I
cannot reverse it.” Even the man who places a blessing on you cannot
reverse it. When Jacob stole the blessing of Esau, Isaac could not reverse it.
“Then
Isaac answered and said to Esau, Indeed I have made him your master, and all
his brethren I have given to him as servants; with grain and wine I have
sustained him. What shall I do now for you, my son?” Jacob’s blessings
were irreversible. When God has blessed you, no man can reverse it, except you.
You can tell God that you do not need His blessings. Even then, you have to
force Him to remove it. In 1Samuel 2:30, God sent a message to Eli: “Therefore
the LORD God of Israel says: I said indeed that your house and the house of
your father would walk before Me forever; but now the LORD says: Far be it from
Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be
lightly esteemed.” We often force God to reverse His blessings by
failing to keep our own side of bargain. Another example is that of Ephraim.
After God had blessed him, he forgot God. God pleaded with him to retrace his
steps but he cared less. Ephraim preferred to serve Baal. To end it all, in
Hosea 4:17, God aid: “Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone.”
I pray that you will never get to that stage where God will decide you be left
alone. In Hosea 5:9, God continued His rebuke of Ephraim: “Ephraim shall be desolate in the
day of rebuke; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.”
May you never be desolate, in Jesus’ name. However, the ball is in your court.
If you refuse to make amends quickly, God will have no option than to reverse
the blessings. May the Lord help you! Amen.
MEMORIZE:
PROVERBS 23:20 –Do not mix with winebibber, or with gluttonous eaters of meat.
