Do I Let Blessings Outpour?

Do I Let Blessings Outpour?

“Judge your brothers no more. Let the blessings outpour—yes, a river of blessings to all.” WotL 304.

This verse of the song contains a tremendous spirit of faith! We all have dealings with various people. It can be easy then to treat those who aren’t my type with “cold hands” and to be dismissive. But such a reaction doesn’t come from God’s Spirit but rather from my flesh. Think instead that my attitude can melt together with this spirit and these words: “Judge your brothers no more. Let the blessings outpour.” Then my attitude and the focus of my heart will be instantly transformed so that I am able to be welcoming, flexible and warm—regardless of how my flesh perceives the other person. “Soon God’s love shall consume and not leave any room for what’s old and distorted and twisted.” WotL 251. Think that all imperfections and shortcomings can be brought to an end through this stream flowing straight out of my heart!

How can this be possible—you might ask—I who have such a flesh in which nothing good dwells? For sure, we are tempted, but this is where there is a need for the power of the cross—we must consider ourselves dead to sin, and completely refrain from making any judgment. This must be my motto: “Judge your brothers no more.” This is what brother Elias Aslaksen wrote, and he himself said that this was the reason why it had gone so well for him in life—that he had completely refrained from judging the friends—no matter how strange he might have thought some of them to be according to the flesh. All of us have surely experienced this kind of outpouring of goodness from our elders—and many others!

The pure in heart shall see God. Matt. 5:8. When my heart is pure I receive revelation—thoughts and words—whereby the anointing is able to teach me what needs to be said and done. And then, because of the anointing, the blessings outpour! “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” John 7:38. The source is love, a mighty, irresistible force! Many waters cannot quench love.

Let us cast ourselves into this spiritual stream that brother Elias Aslaksen was in: always on the giving side, always first to bless and anoint! Paul wrote to the Corinthians that although they understood all mysteries and all knowledge, had the gift of prophecy, and had all faith to remove mountains, etc., if they did not have love, then they were nothing! Instead, let us choose to use the power of love to transform life in both ourselves and those around us! “And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live.” Ezek. 47:9.