Exodus 12:32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.”
Barak is the Hebrew word for kneeling or being on your knees. It’s interesting that it’s also the Hebrew word for blessing. It’s a good reminder for us that blessings flow from God and not from ourselves. God desires to show us favor; He wants to lavish upon His kids. Sometimes, though, we get cocky and begin to think the blessings are here to stay. We might even allow the gifts to become a distraction from God and soon our hearts have been won over. Many years before, God placed Joseph in Egypt to save the world through a great famine, and Egypt enjoyed the flow of God’s blessing. And for a while, Joseph and Israel were honored within Egypt. But successive Pharaohs began to believe that their false gods were the source of the blessing they had enjoyed, and all of Egypt would suffer the consequences. When we are on our knees before the Lord, we will be blessed, and those blessings with flow out to family and friends. If we take our eyes off of God and place them on blessings, we soon grow prideful … Then, we come off of our knees and believe we can stand before the Lord. When that happens, God, in His mercy, may discontinue the flow of blessings to get us back on our knees.
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