God's Blessing : Family

Lord, if Thou bless, we are blest,

Do Thou bless us.

Make our vessels proper;

To command Thy blessings,

To contain Thy blessings,

And to multiply Thy blessings.

Lord, Thou indeed art the Blessing!

Thou art all that we need,

Bless us with Thyself

Lord Jesus Christ!

Family is a blessing from God, a type of God's great family, the church. Often times I evaluate my spiritual status with my own standard and concluded with a negative note. Even to the extend that I reclined my soul in utter dismay. For my judgement is based on the solid spiritual remaining fruit through the shepherding being carried out week by week. Nevertheless, on the contrast, the Lord actually blessed me with wonderful family, beyond expectation; not prayed for nor deserved, but the Lord's blessing.

For half a year, my wife and two children have gone to Taipei for the third blessing. Physically, I was left alone and had lesser burden but was actually  not more blessed. Family life with all its care and concern is a real blessing. Physically void of this is no blessing at all. I begin to learn and understand the importance of family life. Many deeper lessons of life cannot be learned without a normal family life, perhaps, that's the reason God ordained a family life with the phrase, "a help meet." In the absence of this "help meet" is "void and emptiness."

This period of temporal separation taught me more lessons of life. Out of my deep realization of the importance of family life, my prayer ever has been that of the verses above. If God blessed, indeed we will be blessed. For the only blessing is the Lord Himself.

Six months later, I am reunited with my family here in Taipei. Our love for one another has grown much deeper and stronger. Now the third baby is three months old and is mature enough to come back to India, our days here have been numbering. Everyday is a family time; time out to some places of interest or time in with "akong and ama." What a blessing indeed is a family. Never even in my wildest dream I dreamt of such, but the Lord has arranged everything and made everything beautiful in His time. What more can I say except to thank the Lord for the great blessing He pleased to bestow upon this undeserving worm. "Lord, thank you for Your blessing of my family."