Monday, March 24, 2025
“Bless Someone Today”
Today’s Lenten Challenge is to bless someone else. Since it’s Monday, this is the perfect day to tackle this Challenge. Mondays are normally met with tired eyes and limited smiles, especially for those who are beginning another week of work. So, on the day in which lots of folks normally struggle to enjoy their own day, we’re challenging ourselves to try and bless someone else, thereby giving up our own needs to help fill a need for someone else.
How can we bless someone today? The ways and means are endless. Oftentimes, any interaction with another person can prove to yield potential blessings. The task could be to help someone with a project, give someone a gift, assist another person with their health needs, or offer any other manner of assistance. This is not something that requires a lot of effort. Instead, blessing another simply requires us to pay attention to those with whom we have contact today, and genuinely listen to them.
What needs can we fill? How can we help someone else? The LORD will provide plenty of opportunities to bless another person, so pay attention! We might just discover that in blessing another person, we receive blessings in return. The frowns of Monday could then very easily become a great joy on this first day of the week.
“Make sure you don’t take things for granted and go slack in working for the common good; share what you have with others. God takes particular pleasure in acts of worship—a different kind of “sacrifice”—that take place in kitchen and workplace and on the streets.” (Hebrews 13:16, The Message)
