How blessing flows down...

I have the privilege of working on one of the best floors, in probably one of the best medical hospitals in the Midwest. Carle Hospital is in the top 6% of hospitals for nursing. The floor that I work on is one of the highest scoring in the Hospital. Are test scores are very high out scoring most other units, floor moral is high/ as well as communication between staff. Our floor audits scores are high. Everything is generally going very well their, or the outcomes of issue are often well. At my work I am sometimes "floated" to other floors and departments. And other then the tension of be on a new floor and not knowing where to find anything, there appears to just be a different "spirit" about the place. It seems that things are not as organized, the attitude of the nurses between each other seems less communal. There is a higher level of tension in the air.

Now normally I would write this off to a having a great Unit Manager, and we do. Our Unit Manager has been a nurse for over 30 years now. But God has really began to show me something different. My Unit Manager is also I would describe as a God fearing Christian. I believe she is a member of a Lutheran Church. She goes out on missions trips when she is away from her wing. She is very genuine about her faith and I have had numerous conversations about faith/God/missions/ doing ministry.

Now, I'm not stating that she is an example of a "Model" Christian, or the floor runs well because she is of high character, thus doing a "Christian" job. I do believe this has an effect of things though. During a meeting with her I got a word for her, and I understood something in a new light. I understand that because of my Managers Righteousness, God's blessing is able to move through the unit, thus effecting everyone/thing to the good, which is why the floor is as blessed as it is.

I think that the clearest biblical example of this is found in the Kings of Israel. When we look at the ones that are the good kings. David, Solomon (pre-fall) and Hezekiah, they where righteous and walked in the ways of the LORD. What I believe "walking" in the way of the LORD is that they feared the Lord and followed his commandments. They observe the foundational laws that he has passed down to us. And what that does is opens space for God to flow blessings through the kingdom. When Solomon was at his high point Israel was at its highest point. He excelled all kings of the earth, the whole earth sought his presents, the people under him where blessed, the nation was wealth. I received tribute from other nations even. Now these where great Kings, that made very good choices, and had there bases covered, but ultimately very little of what happens in a kingdom is in the kings control. Other nations attack, there are famines, droughts, public unrest, plagues, issues over resources, all of which have very little to do with a king making good choices. We all have come to places where we have made good choices but the majority of our situation is out of our control. When the kings of Israel disobeyed these sorts of things would happen and have negative results. Israel would go to war and lose, the drought would have no provision. Poor righteousness equals poor results.

So what is the application of all this? Very simple, most of us have in charge of something, we manage, teach, direct, we are parents, leaders, workers, home owners, business owners, property owners, investors, etc... All of us have some degree of authority over something, thus having effect on it. Now that we are in authority of that thing, what ever it is, there are often factors that our completely out of our control that have effect on what we are in charge of. I believe that our righteousness has direct effect on those factors, but way of since we have followed God, there by agreeing with God, he as room to bless what we are in charge of. We have a part to play in what we are in charge of, but we are greatly over shallowed by the blessing that God adds to these things. God wants to bless us, he really does! He from the beginning at Genesis he blessed us, gave us is law which is to work as a multiplier of blessings to our lives. The covenant that he made through history are be underlined with blessings. We just have to chose him to allow him to do that, as it is with most things, it really isn't about us. We are not in control