Blessed Are Your Baskets, Kneading Bowls And Nets!
Deuteronomy 28:5
5Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
In Bible times, reapers carried baskets on their backs to collect the harvest from the fields. They had to ensure that their baskets were strong and sturdy so that what they collected would not fall out.
The women used kneading bowls to knead dough for making bread. If they used poor-quality bowls which broke easily, they would not be able to make bread. So baskets and kneading bowls in those days represented the means by which one was blessed materially.
Beloved, your Father in heaven does not want you to worry about the means by which you get your blessings. He says to you, “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.”
This means that if you are a taxi driver, your taxi will not break down on your rounds because God says to you, “Blessed shall be your taxi.” If you are a businessman, your capital investment will not fail you because God says to you, “Blessed shall be your capital investment.” And if you are a salesman, your products will be looked upon favourably because God says to you, “Blessed shall be your products.”
These blessings are yours because Jesus paid for them with His death and He enforced them with His resurrection.
On one occasion, Jesus told Simon Peter to throw his nets into the water. When Peter threw one net down, he caught so much fish that the net began to break. To save the bumper haul, the other disciples quickly filled their boats with the fish, lest the net completely gave way. (Luke 5:4–7)
Then, after Jesus rose from the dead, a similar incident took place. Once again, Jesus asked His disciples to cast their net out. They caught a multitude of fish. But the Bible says that “although there were so many, the net was not broken”. (John 21:11) In the first case, the net broke. In the second case, it did not! Something supernatural happened to their net after Jesus rose from the dead!
Because of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, not only are you blessed (Ephesians 1:3), but your nets, baskets and kneading bowls — the means by which you obtain your blessings — are also blessed!
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