PASSING OUT BLESSINGS
Today's reading: Genesis 47-50

"Then Joseph brought his father, Jacob, and presented him to Pharoah, and Jacob blessed Pharoah...Then Jacob blessed Pharoah again before he left." Genesis 47:7-10 NLT

Here is the scene:

Joseph's brothers and father, Jacob, have now come to Egpyt to be saved from the famine.

Joseph has brought Jacob before Pharoah, the highest authority in the land, to ask a favor--that he would allow Joseph's family some land, their own land, to raise their families.

They were seeking Pharoah's blessing.

But by the end of the conversation, Jacob, God's man, is blessing Pharoah. Twice!

Isn't that how it should be, Christian brothers and sisters? Shouldn't we, no matter what we are needing to ask someone else for, leave the interaction having blessed them?

Aren't we called to leave each and every person we come in contact with in better shape than when we first met them?

Hasn't He asked us to be a blessing? Isn't that what being salt or light means?