"And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better." (Hebrews 7: 7)
God is the source of all blessings in our lives, no matter what wicked turns we may face, what hardships come our way.
God is all about creating, all about giving, for He alone possesses this infinite power:
"1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1: 1)
It's all about Himself. In the original Hebrew, "created" renders the word "bara", which means also "creating" and also "Creator" as well as "choose". God cannot be separated from life itself. "Bara" is also the root word for "Barack", which means "to bless".
This assertion is not pantheistic, though. God is not creation, but God moves about and holds this creation together in Himself.
We see this in His Son Jesus:
"15[Jesus] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence." (Colossians 1: 15-18)
John also explains fully that "In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1: 1)
So, without a doubt, all blessings, all creation, all things come from the Creator God!
This same Loving, infinite Creator created all things "good", but when he made man, He said:
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To the man, God have the following command:
"15And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: " (Genesis 2: 15-16)
How good can it get? God is all about blessing and prospering in us all things.
In fact, one of the last prayers in the Bible could not make it clearer:
"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." (3 John 2)
This prayer is preeminent, and this prayer is direct and intimate, as John, the "disciple whom Jesus loved", writes this wonderful exhortation to his "wellbeloved Gaius".
In Christ, we are all accepted in the Beloved (Ephesians 1: 6), which is Christ.
So, blessings is God's"business", and so He revealed himself to Abram:
"1Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
"And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
"And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." (Genesis 12: 1-3)
Abram is called the father of faith, and the friend of God, not because of what he did for God, but rather because he believed that God would be, have, and do all that He said He would (Genesis 15: 6)
God is the Blessor. God made man last so that man would enjoy all things that He had created, and also so that man would not presume in any way that he did anything on his own to provide for himself.
Now let us turn to Job. . .