As I’ve looked over my life I’ve concluded that there is nothing more painful than a lost blessing, one that I know is a direct blessing from God that is taken away by God because I didn’t handle the blessing the right way.
Scripture is full of accounts of lost blessings in which we should learn lessons for our own lives.
The most obvious lost blessing happened with Adam and Eve. God gave Adam and Eve paradise, which included a close, personal relationship with Him, and a life of purpose and direction that would have likely been eternal. Adam and Eve could not manage one simple command and lost it all, resulting in a lost relationship with God, hardship in marriage, hardship in work, and hardship in mind, body, and spirit. Oh yeah, nature fell, too, resulting in all the natural disasters we have as well as diseases affecting us like cancer.
So, what is the lesson of this lost blessing for us? Beware of talking snakes? For me, I hear God saying, “You can do this the easy way or the hard way, it’s your choice. Adam and Eve took the hard way by not doing what God had asked them to do. They didn’t trust God that He was doing what was in their best interest. I know for me when I don’t do what God asks me to do it usually results in the hard way as well.
God will give us free will to choose whatever we want, but Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 10:23 that if we do not choose to do things God’s way we may find ourselves having a much harder time in life than we need to.
Losing a blessing from God is brutal because I know it is my own fault and know that I will never get that blessing back again.
But God is good. He uses all things for the good of those who love Him so I will be blessed again once I prove I am mature enough to handle the next blessing that can glorify God and impact my life.
From Pity to Praise 