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How Can We Bless God?

ImageAt church in our praise and worship service we are often encouraged to bless God. At first I thought that rather a strange comment. After all, I reasoned, aren’t we the ones who should supposedly be asking God to bless us.
     
How could we, lowly sinners, possibly bless the “All Knowing God” who created everything? But after that phrase was repeated to us on several occasions it started me to thinking.
     
I can remember when our children were small; I always felt pride when someone commented on my well behaved children. I certainly felt blessed to have children who listened to their father and mother and conducted themselves well, doing what was right, when they were out in public.
     
I recall, too, how blessed I felt when our children played well with their siblings, playmates or found camaraderie with their classmates.
     
I was also pleasantly pleased to hear one of our children speak a good word about my husband or me to one of their friends. I felt blessed to hear them speak words of praise about their parents, those who loved, instructed and disciplined them.
     
As I sat in the stands and watched our boys throw the football, or pass the basketball or compete on the track team, or watched our daughters cheer for the home team I felt blessed to have such healthy, talented children.
     
Like wise I was blessed as I watched them participated in Christian Athletic organizations, attend Bible school, or play in the praise band, or set in the church pew or participate in other church activities. Indeed they were doing what was right not only in my eyes but in the eyes of God.
     
My husband, our children’s father, I am sure felt blessed to have his boys help in our restaurant business when they were teenagers, and have our daughters waitress when he needed them.  
     
Yes, my husband and I have been blessed over and over again by the good deeds, actions or words of our children.
     
It was then my thoughts began to ponder on the way we who are Christians can bless our heavenly Father.
     
When we as children of God praise Him in worship or singing songs of praises I am sure He delights in our admiration of Him.
     
As Christians when we witness with words to other people I am sure He swells with joy and is blessed to have His children speak of Him to others.
     
When we communicate with Him in prayer, or do deeds of kindness to our fellow man, or read daily from His word, I am sure our God feels blessed to have such obedient, helpful loyal children.
     
When we ask for forgiveness of our sinful ways, or thank Him for His blessings to us, or grace our food before we consume it, or provide for the less fortunate, helping those who are in need, I am sure we are blessing the one who knew us before we were formed in our mother’s womb.
     
I know how we as parents felt when our young children were always asking for something, then how we felt as they matured and discovered their responsibility to give back.
     
We as parents feel blessed to realize our children have learned to honor and respect our authority, and mature into responsible loving caring adults, who are doing what is just and right.
     
When I began to think about the ways we parents are blessed by our children, I begun to understand how our heavenly Father is blessed and delighted by we who have matured and learned we, too, can bless Him by our words deeds and actions, doing that which is right.
     
I am sure God must feel especially pleased when we exhibit kindness, fairness and justice in dealing with our fellowman; He then sees we love as He loves, and He must be extremely blessed.