God’s first action after creating humanity was to bless them. And immediately after this blessing, God gave them guidelines on how to live in his blessing. This  began with four simple words of instruction: Be fruitful and multiply. 

His intent for humanity is that we’d do both of these things — become personally fruitful, then multiply our fruitfulness into the world around us. This is the cycle of God’s blessing!

In the New Testament, these very same ideas are restated as sowing and reaping. And God’s promise is that when we sow generously, we will also reap generously.

What we find over and over again in Scripture is God’s blessing will flow to us so it can flow through us. As we "sow," we can anticipate God will cause us to "reap" — so this cycle of his blessing will repeat over and over!

2 Corinthians 9:8–11 And God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others. ... Yes, you will be enriched in every way so that you can always be generous.

The key to living in
God’s blessing
is to cause others
to experience his blessing!