Gen 24:27, And he said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His lovingkindness and His truth toward my master; as for me, the Lord has guided me in the way to the house of my master's brothers." 
In this passage, we have Abraham’s servant making a general statement as to his appreciation that the Lord led him to the family of his master, Abraham. He was searching for a wife for Isaac, and the Lord answered his petition for guidance to the chosen one. Although this was a general statement made in thanksgiving, there is something very important that we need to take to heart. 
The very basis of this utterance is something that should have a tremendous effect on our every day consideration of God and the life that He has given us in His Son, Jesus Christ. We are called to bless the Lord and we are to be desirous for all of creation to so honor and to bless Him. Obviously we are not able to make anyone else so respond with this passion for His blessing. However, in our hearts, it should still be our earnest desire and every waking mission in life to bring such blessing unto God. Let us, therefore, spend some time with regard to what is involved in so living lives that will proclaim in word, in thought, in deed, and in fullness … Blessed be the Lord…
We first considered the blessing of God when we spent those few weeks looking at Gen 14:18-20 with regard to Abram, Melchizedek, and tithe. And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High. And he blessed him and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand." And he gave him a tenth of all. 
The main point that we tried to establish is that God is blessed when we acknowledge that everything we receive on this earth comes from His hand. Tithe is merely a token expression of the thankfulness of our hearts that since God has so blessed us with our every provision; we seek to bless Him with our return unto Him. This is in recognition of His Providential hand upon us. All that we have is His and we acknowledge that truth by giving back to Him directly from all that we receive. We do so in order to bless Him and to honor Him and to express our complete reliance upon Him in the every practical aspect of our abilities. In so doing, we join our hearts with that prayer of Melchizedek … And blessed be God Most High…
The next passage that we will reflect on in this regard is Ex 18:9-10. And Jethro rejoiced over all the goodness which the Lord had done to Israel, in delivering them from the hand of the Egyptians. So Jethro said, "Blessed be the Lord who delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of Pharaoh, and who delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, finds utter rejoicing in the reality that God has proven Himself mighty over the most powerful ruler of that day. The People of God had been slaves and treated extremely harshly by Pharaoh. They were in a hopeless situation without any power or possible recourse for deliverance. Theirs was a miserable existence, daily slaving away at the whim and fancy of those rulers who considered them as merely beasts of burden. In this utterly hopeless situation, God brought forth His Omnipotence and His Mercy and His Grace in delivering them from the anguish of that awful earthly plight. 
In the throes of this rejoicing over God’s deliverance, Jethro offers before the people the truth that God is to be blessed. Blessed be the Lord who delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of Pharaoh… He encouraged all to honor God in the fact that they were delivered by God’s hand alone. No one else was to receive the credit or the praise for such a miracle of liberation and release. 
This is something that we may often take for granted and may be lacking in our daily consideration of the fact that we are now, likewise, released from the power of sin and death by the blood of Jesus Christ! We should be actively thanking the Lord for His gracious deliverance in our personal times and in our corporate times with Him. So often, in the details of daily living, we are prone to forget that He has brought us from death into life, from slavery and bondage of sin into the freedom and deliverance from all unrighteousness. We can become ungrateful in our apathy and our nonchalance as to Who God is and exactly what He has done to deliver us. 
This must be a major concern of every true Christian! As His people, we are to bless Him with our thanksgiving and with our wonder and amazement at the work of His mighty Hand in our lives. We are to be in utmost, daily awe that He would so choose to freely and fully love us unto Himself by the death and resurrection of His Only Begotten Son. For that, He is to be blessed, heartily and loudly and profoundly blessed by His redeemed people! 
Why is it that we do not give such expressions and testimonies in the presence of others Why is there so little inclination to bless the Lord together as His redeemed? He proves Himself every day in so many ways in each one of our lives! Yet it seems that we are so often impervious to the magnificence of His saving hand. We can be so callous to the momentous magnitude of His operating grace or so laissez-faire as to the depth of His love enveloping us! Each day, we just seemingly take Him for granted! We should be rejoicing with all abandon in the majesty and the Omnipotence and the Omniscience and the Omnipresence of God so freely manifested in Jesus Christ! It should be that each day is filled with the endless and earnest search for the sufficient words, the resplendent means, the ample time or the abounding energy to give a continual expression of praise unto His blessing and His honor and His glory! 
Our entire being and our corporate expression should be overwhelmed and seeking to bring some measure of praise to Him in order to bless Him. Not just that, but we should be an encouragement to others to so bless Him! Please forgive me at this point if I step on some toes. I freely admit that this is going to get very personal, because it is time for everyone of us to examine our motivations and our actions and our hearts before God! 
If blessing God was the utmost desire of our hearts, in recognition for what He has done for us in Jesus Christ, we would never permit ourselves to be late to worship. We would never permit ourselves to gather in His name in an unprepared manner. There would be no expression of personal likes or dislikes or behaviors that were unbecoming to those who are the redeemed of the Lord. We would never permit ourselves to just sit in the Assembly of God’s people thinking of anything else but blessing Him! 
There would be no judgment, unforgiveness, malice or distain of others in our hearts. All that would distract from our gathering together would be truly dealt with in the Love of God before we entered into the Assembly of believers. If we are the redeemed of the Lord then let our actions and our mouths and our thoughts and our desires join together and say so! Ps 107:1+2, Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; For His lovingkindness is everlasting. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary…
	 We are to manifest the glory of God unto His blessing as described in the following quote from The Biblical Illustrator. Blessed be God- Praise rises even from lifeless objects, as they display the power and wisdom of their Creator; but intelligence, will, and intent are needful for blessing God. Praise is the manifestation of our inward reverence and esteem: it adores and magnifies; but in blessing God we think well of Him, and wish well to Him, and desire that others may do the same. In blessing God there is the desire to do good to God even as He doth to us, if it were possible for us to do so. We fail in the power wherewith to accomplish such a desire, but it is well that it is in our hearts. When we wish other men to love and serve the Lord, and do Him homage, we are blessing Him. When we desire to love Him more ourselves, and feel our hearts burn with aspirations after fellowship with Him, we are blessing Him. When we are zealous to make known the truth of the gospel which glorifies God, and to make known His Son in whom especially He is revealed, we are blessing God. End quote. (from The Biblical Illustrator Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 Ages Software, Inc. and Biblesoft, Inc.)
	Our lives are to be the living witness of the grace of God to His blessing. When we are asked as to the manner in which we are enabled to go on loving and worshipping God despite all the earthly trouble in our lives, we should be readily willing and able to proclaim that it is all by the loving and sovereign Hand of God in Whom we find our strength and our deliverance and our redemption! 
Think of all that Ruth had to endure along with her mother-in-law, Naomi. Theirs was a most difficult and strenuous life, spent gleaning in the fields in order to have any sustenance. They had suffered the loss of all their male folk. They were two widows in a land that did not give value to women as much more than possessions. They were living from moment to moment without any visible future, and yet God blessed them and delivered them. 
Everyone, who knew them, freely honored and blessed God when Ruth bore Obed. Ruth 4:13+14, So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife, and he went in to her. And the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. Then the women said to Naomi, "Blessed is the Lord who has not left you without a redeemer today, and may his name become famous in Israel. 
	The credit for it all was publicly given to God as it should be in our hearts. Blessed is the Lord who has not left you without a redeemer today… Our Redeemer is Jesus Christ! His is the name above all names! Our readings from scripture, our songs of worship, our prayers of thanksgiving, our rejoicing in His great love should all be focused and intended to bring God every blessing and honor and satisfaction as we recount His gloriousness in our hearts and in the midst of the congregation. 
	To bless Him is to honor Him. To honor Him is to count Him as the most important reality of our lives on this earth. All that we are and have and hope for and believe in is to be absolutely centered in Him! In this manner, we will be urgently seeking to please Him constantly in the lives that we live on this earth. This truly means that we no longer become the focal point of our manner of living our day to day walk on this earth. We will no longer look at things with regard to how it affects us, but with respect to how it affects His testimony and His witness in the eyes of others. 
	This is a very humbling and contrite manner of facing our everyday experiences. As we look for God’s witness to be the sole reason for our dealings with others, many of those things that were of such importance and such crucial determination for our behavior will be set aside. We will respond to all the stimuli of every agitation and disappointment and frustration from the vantage point of how God will use it to bring forth more of His blessing from the response of our heart! We will no longer put up our defenses and our walls of protection, but simply seek for God to be glorified even if that requires our physical release from the bonds of this age. 
	The people of God are called to rejoice in His fullness and in His mercy and in His abiding presence and in His keeping power throughout all the turmoil and the struggles. We should be declaring His goodness no matter what the state of our situation. God is to be blessed beyond all measure and glorified with every breath of our lungs and every conscious thought of our minds. We should be enthralled that He has so loved us and brought us into this life that we live before man and before Him. 
	As His Church, we should gather together as did the people of Israel recorded in 1 Chron 29:9-14. They brought forth the abundance of their hearts for the sake of building the temple of God. They did not withhold from God of the wealth that He had given them and they were fully engaged in what would bring Him honor and blessing. Let us read this passage together. 1 Chron 29:9-14, Then the people rejoiced because they had offered so willingly, for they made their offering to the Lord with a whole heart, and King David also rejoiced greatly. So David blessed the Lord in the sight of all the assembly; and David said, "Blessed art Thou, O Lord God of Israel our father, forever and ever. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Thine is the dominion, O Lord, and Thou dost exalt Thyself as head over all. Both riches and honor come from Thee, and Thou dost rule over all, and in Thy hand is power and might; and it lies in Thy hand to make great, and to strengthen everyone. Now therefore, our God, we thank Thee, and praise Thy glorious name. But who am I and who are my people that we should be able to offer as generously as this? For all things come from Thee, and from Thy hand we have given Thee. 
	This is the one heart with which all His people should gather together in order to bless Him. God is to be blessed in absolute fullness and in endless thanksgiving and in utmost honor and in glory and in praise and in complete and unending worship. So be it!
And he said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His lovingkindness and His truth...Amen.

This morning’s benediction is Gal 6:18. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen.