Have you ever received a blessing from your father? In my last post I talked about the father vacuum, and if you did not have a good relationship with your father, I would say the answer to the above question is, no. Even if you had a good relationship with your father he may have not known he needed to give you a blessing or how to give you his blessing.
The model of a blessing is found in Genesis chapter 27, which is the story of Jacob stealing the blessing …

What kind of relationship do or did you have with your earthly father? I hope it was a very good relationship, where he loved you unconditionally and showed you what real love looks like. But, in the real world our earthly fathers have their own problems and most of the time have passed on to us what they were taught by their father. I am going to talk in general terms here, but I think what I am about to discuss will hit home for most of us. So let me ask you one more question. Does your concept of God and how you view God, come through the relationship you had with your earthly father?