“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” (Malachi 3:10). God is not a wasteful or negligent God. He would not give us a blessing unless He intended us to receive every part of it. So what are we to make of the promise that He will pour us out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it? The blessings that we have room enough to receive make sense to us. They are the good things of life that it is easy to wrap our heads and our hearts around and to feel gratitude and humility for receiving them. But if it's true that every single thing we receive from the Lord is a blessing and will work together for our good, then all of the things that at present we find unpleasant, incomprehensible, unbearable, these must also be blessings. Blessings, in fact, that we do not yet have room enough to receive. We have some learning and some growing and some refining still to do. We have to labor diligently to open our minds and soften our hearts and expand our souls so that we will have room enough to receive the full blessing that our Father has poured down upon us. When we are ready even the most unsolvable mysteries, the most grievous injustices, the most painful tragedies, the full scope and plan and purpose of all of these will fit together inside our hearts and we will fall down at the feet of our Savior and weep tears of joy at the full beauty of the blessing that He had prepared for us all along.
