God the Blesser.

After creating, the next thing we see God doing is blessing (Gen 1.22, 28; 2.3.) This, too, is remarkable. The God who has all blessedness in himself blesses that which is outside himself. One would think it is the creature’s duty to bless God, and so it is (Psalm 150.6). But the creature can give nothing to God except if God first gives to the creature. And still God creates and blesses. Thus we see God living out the words Jesus would tell us many years later: “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” (Acts 20.35.)  This is not just a nice thought; this is what God did when no one was there to reciprocate. The things we do when no one is there to see are the things that tell us who we are. God’s giving when no one was there to give back tells us who he is.  Finding more blessing in giving than receiving – that’s who God is.  And that is whose image we were made in.