Verse one proclaims, "How happy is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in His ways!" I have a saying, as goes the husband/father, so goes the whole house. This first verse is speaking directly to the Dad and the "everyone" in verse one refers to the family. We see this as we continue to read. Verse three speaks of the wife and children, and then in verse six, the grandchildren. We must not let a secular society deceive us into believing the fallacy, "If I'm not hurting anyone else, leave me alone." We are always hurting someone else if we are not walking in His ways... especially our families!
Psalm 127 reminds us that no amount of human effort alone will succeed in walking in His ways. We have been in a series at our church entitled "Am I?" It is a play on words with Jesus' seven I Am statements in the gospel John. The idea is that if He is in us, and He most certainly is for everyone who has made a vow of devotion to Him (John 14:20), then we should be becoming more and more like Him throughout our lives. His I Am's should inspire us to ask Am I? This is the truth of Psalm 127, we are desperate for who He is in us to empower us to become like Him. He is in us not just to reveal the standard of life up to which we fail to measure...but to change us! As we yield to Him (Psalm 127), He will enable us to walk in His ways (Psalm 128).
And as we walk on this journey of transformation, may we not be surprised by the hardships and trials that await us. Psalm 126, verse five speaks plainly, "Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy." Bruce Wilkinson unlocks John 15 like no other in his book Secrets of the Vine. God's use of discipline and pruning are essential to our personal transformation.
Psalm 128, verse 5 wraps it all up...
"May the Lord bless you... so that you will see the prosperity... all the days of your life!"
Pastor Fred
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