So much of our walk with God can be focused on what blessings we want to receive from Him that we forget to consider what we are supposed to do with the things God blesses us with. Out of God's goodness and through Jesus Christ, we fall on the receiving end of His limitless grace and provision, but just like anything, God has a reason for all of the blessings He brings into our life.
Recently, I've had problems with piping at home. One of our older sink lines got clogged up so I had to call a plumber to take out the old pipes because of all the trouble it was causing. Why do clogged pipes cause so much trouble? Because they were meant to be channels that keep flowing.
In many ways, we are like pipes made to be channels of God's blessings. God blesses us with every blessing in an overflowing manner, but then we clog it up and let it stop with us. We believe in the misguided concept that our value is determined by how much value we store up. But truth is that our value is not determined by how much we store up, but how much we give out.
Proverbs 11:26 says this: "The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it." God never made us to be hoarders because to be hoarders means that the blessing stops with us.
When we let value stop and store up, and clog up within us, you know what's going to happen next. God's probably going to stop that flow, and transfer it somewhere else. We were meant to be channels, not clogged up pipes that hold back all the flow of material things because at the end of the day, they're just material things that rot and destroy. It's funny to think that in a clogged up pipe, that's exactly what blocks the passage: rotten and destroyed things.
When we become channels of God's blessings, we become like utilised pipes that never run out of flow. The blessing keeps coming in and it keeps coming out. I'm not saying that we automatically give out everything we receive (unless that's what God calls you to do), but to change the value and perspective of a clogged up pipe. It's not about holding as much as we can, but about seeing the purpose of the provision that flows and allowing God to determine what goes where.
At the end of the day, it's God's money, possessions, material things, gifts and talents and He knows how to use them best. We are merely channels that they must pass through for the source to bring the blessing where it's supposed to go.
