Blessing Others Through Your Problems

"As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive" – Genesis 50:20

When problems hit, the natural instinct is to want them gone. We pray for solutions, for relief, for the storm to pass. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But what if, in the middle of those problems, God still wants to use you to bless someone else? What if your problem is the very platform He wants to stand on to reach another person?

Blessing others through your problems doesn’t mean pretending everything is fine. It means being willing to let God work through your current reality. Sometimes that’s as simple as letting people see how you’re walking through it with faith. Your peace in the storm, your trust when things don’t make sense, your refusal to give up. Those things preach a sermon without you ever standing on a stage.

It can also mean sharing your perspective in the middle of the struggle. When someone else is facing something hard, they’re far more likely to listen to someone who is walking through a challenge themselves. Your words carry a different kind of weight when you’re speaking from the trenches, not just from memory.

God can even use the specific details of your problem to position you to bless someone. Maybe your financial struggle gives you a heart for someone else in a similar situation. Maybe your health battle opens doors to encourage people you never would have met otherwise. Maybe your strained relationship gives you insight that helps someone else navigate theirs. The very thing you wish would go away might be the thing God uses to open a door you couldn’t open on your own.

Your problems are not the end of your story. They can be the very thing God uses to bring hope, encouragement, and even salvation to someone else. So instead of waiting for your life to be problem-free before you bless others, let God use your current season to impact lives now. He wastes nothing, not even the problems you wish you didn’t have.