How about a little Blessing?

"So David did not take the ark with him to the city of David, but took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. Thus the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months; and the LORD blessed the family of Obed-edom with all that he had." 1 Chronicles 13: 14-15

We have no record that Obed-edom believed in the God of Israel. It labels him here as a Gittite and they were Philistines, and yet the bible says that the Lord blessed everything in his household for 3 months. The key here is the ark. David was trying to bring the ark back home, but along the way Uzza touched the ark and God struck him down. This made David fear God and he decided he couldn't bring it back yet, so he dropped it off at Obed-edom's house. Why his house? I don't know. Maybe it was along the way, or the event with Uzza happened in front of that house. Either way it doesn't really matter; all that matters here is that where the presence of God was there was blessing also. Regardless of who's house it was, or even if they believed in God or not, wherever the presence of God rested His blessing was there also. But not just blessing in some areas, in ALL areas. In the bible it says "with all he had". Everything Odeb-edom had was blessed, family, work, relationships, everything. Is the presence of God resting with you? And are you, like David, bringing the presence of God to others? Do not take the presence of God for granted, it is something deep and precious. You should always be striving to have the manifest presence of God with you. It brings power and blessing. If you are going through a rough patch ask yourself if you can really say that you know that the presence of God is with you. If it is, there WILL be blessing. In a earlier post I talked about how Moses and the Israelites had taken God for granted and that God told him that:

"The LORD replied, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." Then Moses said to him, "If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here." Ex. 33:14-15

God made His presence optional, not mandatory. Be careful as you walk through this life not to take His presence for granted; but also strive to be in the abundant blessing of His presence.