Most of us dream of unexpected blessing. As a child we used to watch the TV program "Millionaire." In each episode some unsuspecting individual was given a check for a million dollars. Every now and then I still comment to my wife, "I wonder if the millionaire has left a check in my mail box?" Sometimes such an event is referred to as our "ship coming in." My dad used to say that he'd probably be at the airport when his ship came in.
While most of us probably will never have that million dollar blessing, there is a blessing that will be ours if we are in the right place. In Luke 1 Zacharias and Elizabeth were blessed by God because of their walk. As we read the text we find them righteous, obedient and blameless before God. Zacharias was faithfully doing his service in the temple when God informed him that their prayer had been heard and they would be blessed with a son. That son would be the one who introduced Jesus as "the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world." God chose them for this special blessing because they were in the path of blessing.
At a preacher's convention the late Dr. Walter Wilson observed preacher after preacher praying and asking God for a blessing. When it was Dr. Wilson's turn to pray he only prayed one sentence. He said, "Lord, make us blessable." Zacharias and Elizabeth were blessable. Are we? If we will walk in the path of blessing we will be the recipients of blessing.
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