Title: People with God / Psalm 127:1-5
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Psalm 127:1-5
It's New Year's Day today. We thank God for giving us another start and we wish you a pleasant and gracious Lunar New Year holiday.
Today's text is a song we sing as we go up to the temple. As the saints go up to find the temple and worship, they hum and sing about life. Confess your faith. i will live like this This is the goal of my life. God is the master of my life. Singing like this is the content of the text.
Today's text tells us that in order to live well in the world, we must work three things. The first is the effort of building up, the second is the effort of keeping, and the third is the effort of working. However, the core of today's message is that those labors bear fruit only when they say, "What kind of hard work?"
1. toil to build
To be successful in life, you need to be good at building things. A person who wants to build a building needs to design well, and a young person who is preparing for the future needs to have a good will. Anyone who wants to run a business must plan well. You can see that everything in life starts with building like this.
However, today's text says that no matter how meticulously prepared and built, all efforts are in vain unless God is with them.
Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain...
The meaning of these words is that God is the master of life. No matter how hard a person puts in his efforts, it can all be in vain. An unexpected illness or a terrible accident can strike anyone. Buying insurance and depositing in the bank is to protect your life from the unexpected. However, when the Lord builds the house, the house can stand strong, and when the Lord protects the city, the city can be safe. A life with God is a successful life, a life with God is a life of strength and success, and a life with God is a blessed life.
The Christian must open his heart to God for God to intervene. We must open our lives to God. God is with you, God guides you, and God's Word should be the foundation of your life. Such a life is a successful life and a blessed life.
2. hard work to keep
In today's text, he talked about the hard work to keep in the midst of hard work in life. If you think about it, life can be compared to protecting one's own castle. Life is about protecting your life, protecting your property, protecting your honor, protecting your health, and protecting your family.
But in today's text, he says:
Unless the LORD guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
When you say “One?” in this dangerous world, it is saying that everything is kept and not through my talents and efforts. Eating everything that is good for health, exercising hard, going to Sanauna, sweating, and getting drunk on entertainment doesn't mean you will be healthy, but when you do one, your body will be healthy and your soul will be energized. Your property is not protected by locking a heavy safe with a complex number. Accidents like this, a disease like that, leaking sideways, falling down, flying up and leaving only an empty safe. When you do something, He makes you stay in your absence, gets you up while you are falling, and guides you when you do not know where you are going.
Commit your way to the LORD, trust in him, and he will do it... Psalm 37:5
Commit your deeds to the LORD. Then what you manage will come true. Proverbs 16:3
3. hard work
People think that to be successful in life, you have to work hard. But God makes it clear.
It is in vain that you rise early and lie down late and eat the bread of toil.
If you do not get up earlier than others, go to the market, come in last, go to sleep, and work diligently? People just think that if they work more than others, all the pay is mine. So, if you just look at the ground, you work hard like an animal. But if you don't do one, all your diligence is in vain.
No matter how hard you work, if you don't do it, it's in vain and in vain. Moreover, if God's people do not glorify God, all of them will be in vain. No matter how much you work all night and work so hard that your back is bent, if it leaks sideways, leaks backwards, and falls down, everything is in vain. However, God gives peace in any case and gives him a good night's sleep.
Therefore the LORD gives sleep to those he loves.
The new translation of the Bible makes the original meaning of these words very clear.
The Lord blesses the one he loves, even while he sleeps. New Standard Version 127:2
If you don't do one, you can't do this, and even if you try, it's in vain. It is said that God protects and blesses you even unconsciously.
泳汰?He is blessed even while he sleeps. I pray that the saints will receive blessings even while they are sleeping.
4. Blessings full of arrows in quiver
Hana泳殆“?The blessing that is given is the blessing of the children.
Behold, children are the inheritance of the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
The children of a young man are like arrows in the hand of a merchant.
Blessed is the man whose quiver is full... 3-5
He said that the fruit of the womb is God's reward and is like an arrow in the hands of a merchant. No matter how powerful a business is, if you don't have arrows when fighting enemies, you can't win a war. If the arrows are full of arrows, no one is afraid and you can win in any battlefield. If there are many children, it is as if there are many arrows in the quiver in the hands of the merchant, so that in this competitive world, you win anywhere. If there are no arrows in the quiver, you will fall behind in international competitiveness not only individually but also nationally, and you will be in danger of being reduced to a backward country in the future.
On New Year's Eve, all children gather in one place. It takes strength, money, and exhaustion while raising children, but when they grow up and have children sitting around the holidays like this, how strong and proud it is.
Your wife in your house is like a fruitful vine,
Children around your table will be like young olive trees.
Those who fear the Lord will thus be blessed. Psalm 128:3-4
Hana 泳殆“?I am saying that you will give me such a blessing.
Do you remember these words deeply on New Year's Day today? I pray that you will enjoy abundant blessings as one family and one enterprise.
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