MAKE ME A BLESSING

Our relationship with God is beautiful!  In it, we will be encouraged to respond to others in the same way as God would.  We actually begin to be like our heavenly Father…loving and caring for others just as He does.  Our relationship with God will teach us to be a blessing to others as well. 

Regardless of the task God calls us to, whether great or small, it will receive His promised blessing when we do it faithfully and with sincere motives.

MAKE ME A BLESSING is our hymn today.  It was written in 1909 by Ira B. Wilson.  He was a musician associated with Lorenz Publishing Company and served as the editor of their popular periodicals for church choirs and choir leaders.  The music for the hymn was added 15 years later by George Schuler, who served more than 40 years in the music department of the Moody Bible Institute.

The hymn was first introduced in 1924 at a Sunday School convention in Cleveland, Ohio.  It was received with much enthusiasm, and these words have since been widely used to challenge believers to commit their lives God’s usefulness. 

The chorus is our prayer request to God…

“Make me a blessing, make me a blessing!  Out of my life may Jesus’ shine.

Make me a blessing, O Saviour, I pray; make me a blessing to someone today!”