Blessed in the City, Blessed in the Field
Deuteronomy 28:3
Meet Maria. Maria is in her forties, working a demanding job for an established high status company within a busy city, while also caring for her parents’ small farm at the weekends. The city was full of stress! Traffic, meetings, deadlines, heavy workload, and Maria would arrive home in the evening stressed and totally exhausted. She would look forward to Friday evening when she would finish work and head out into the country to her parent’s home. But she would find the field was exhausting too, with mending fences, tending to crops, and supporting her aging family with the many animals on the farm. Maria would often get low in mood and ask God, “Where is my blessing Lord? Why am I missing it? Is my blessing in the city, or is my blessing in the field? Where will it come from Lord?” Maria would wait for God to reply but often felt He had not even heard her cry.
One Sunday morning, Maria heard Deuteronomy 28:3 being preached on the radio. “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field” and suddenly, Maria realised that God was in fact listening to her cries and was not dividing her life into separate compartments – the city, or the filed. Maria realised He was actually present in both. The blessing wasn’t about the location, Maria realised the blessing was about God’s presence with her! From that day, Maria lived with the confidence that she was blessed wherever she went, city, field, field, city…her blessings were in both. In the city, God blessed her with influence at work, where colleagues came to her for wisdom and encouragement. In the field, God blessed her with peace, strength, and the joy of serving her family.
“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.”
There is something powerful about the promises of God in Deuteronomy 28 where the passage describes blessings that flow from living in covenant relationship and obedience to Him and the Word says we will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field, meaning, wherever we go and whatever we put our hands to, God’s blessing has the power to follow us.
We live in a world where people often connect blessing to location, status, or opportunity. Some say, “If only I could move to that big city, then I’d be blessed.” Others think, “If only I had more land, more resources, then I’d be blessed.” But Scripture makes it clear that blessing doesn’t come from the place, blessing comes from the presence and favour of God.
Psalm 139:7–10 reminds us that there is no place we can go to escape God’s presence. His blessing is mobile, and it goes wherever we go. Stop believing that your blessing is tied to a physical place. Your job, your neighbourhood, or your background does not limit what God can do in your life. If you want to see God’s blessings in your workplace, in your home, and in your relationships, start with obedience in the small things as obedience unlocks our blessing. And don’t compare your blessing to someone else’s. God knows what kind of blessing you need in your “city” and in your “field.”
In this time of fasting, remember, you are not waiting to “arrive” somewhere else to be blessed. You are already blessed where you are—because God is with you.
God Bless You