Editor’s note: I know what you’re thinking, so you don’t have to say it. Let’s just say I’m trying to work on sticking to my commitments.

Often, I forget this simple truth: God blesses us so that all the ends of the earth may fear Him. It really isn’t about us, it’s about the next person. If we really understood and believed that, maybe we wouldn’t get so bent out of shape when things don’t go our way. I’m talking to you, Chris Saldanha.

I am not sure when it happened, but at some point humanity thought that the blessings of God should come to and stop at us. But if you dust off that book called Genesis, God makes it clear from the start that what He’s doing, and how He blesses us, is all with the next person in mind. He tells Abraham that He will bless him, and though him all nations will be blessed. God didn’t tell Abraham to take his goodie basket and run into the closet and eat all of his candy before all the other kids get to it. For years I thought that was what Easter was about.

The writer of Psalm 67 is talking about very earthly blessings – produce, to be specific – and how we should be using them for God’s purposes. If our produce is supposed to be a means through which the ends of the earth would know and fear the Lord, how much more is the burden now that we have and understanding of the spiritual “produce.”

I am tired of running off with my basket of spiritual goodies and hoarding them all for myself. This year, I will use my chocolate bunnies of faith to help the next person know the person of Jesus.