“God bless you!” We often say this to someone going through a difficult time or after a sneeze, but what do we mean by it? What does God’s blessing look like? And what happens when his blessing goes out? Here we read that the LORD’s blessing is given to Israel to bring this same blessing to all the nations on the earth. In other words, God blessed Israel with the expressed purpose of displaying his good ways and his powerful salvation to the ends of the earth—through the ones he has blessed. In Christ, we have graciously received this same blessing. And just as God desired to see his blessing to go forth through Israel, we are called to extend his blessing by making Christ known to all the nations on earth.
