Blessing From God - The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids

The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.” Genesis 12:1-3

IN GENESIS 11 we read about the people in Babel who, wanting to make a name for themselves, built a tower into the heavens intending to make their way to God. Then in Genesis 12, we discover something radically different. God came down to a man who wasn’t even looking for him and made incredible promises to him. God told Abram that he would make his name great and that he would bless him. God promised to be Abram’s security and to give his life significance. God’s promise of blessing was a sheer gift of grace.

Surely we want this name, blessing, and significance for ourselves and for our children too. We don’t want the name we can make for ourselves. We don’t want the security we can assemble for ourselves or the wealth we can amass for ourselves. We want the blessing of God that is a work of God.

Lord, as I think about the life that lies ahead for ________, I find myself wanting him to make something of himself. I want him to be somebody. I want him to do what he needs to do to create financial and relational security. But I’m also realizing that I don’t want ________ to have a life that is all about what he can accomplish. Rather, I’m asking you to bless him in the way only you can. Shower him with the blessings that are ours in Christ. Make his life all about what you have done, what you will do, what you will give. Make his life all about your grace and goodness to him.