A Walk In His Ways - September 16, 2009

Blessed is every one who fears the Lord, Who walks in His ways. When you eat the labor of your hands, You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you. Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine In the very heart of your house, Your children like olive plants All around your table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed Who fears the Lord.

Psalm 128:1-4

Following the Lord is good for those around you as well as for you. When you fear/respect the Lord’s ways enough to actually live them out it will afford you the labor of your hand. Following Him will make you happy and your life will be good. It will also affect those who live with you.
Who doesn’t want to live with a productive wife whose focus is centered on their home? This kind of woman is wonderful. It doesn’t necessarily mean she doesn’t have a job or community interests. It means these things are based in building her own home. Proverbs 31 describes a woman like this. She is involved in the commerce of the home but it is for the sake of the home. She is a highly competent person. Her abilities are varied; she can operate in many venues. Some of the responsibility for having a good spouse rests on each of us. We husbands should support and encourage our wives to develop all their skill. Wives should support their husbands too of course. Following the Lord means we are not putting each other down; no we lift the other person up to be the best they can be.

Who doesn’t want to have children who want to be home? This psalm tells us that not only will they be around our table but they will be like olive plants. They will have the potential to be trees in their own right one day. Our children are what we leave behind in the world. They are a major way that we strike the darkness in the world.

The last line is great. See, this is how those who respect the Lord are blessed. I know not everything goes our way but by choosing God’s way we choose life and that affects the people we are connected with! When we follow Him we will not labor in vain but be nourished by our own labor because our labor is His labor.

Blessed In My Family,

Pastor Jason