Psalm 128

V1. Blessed is every one who fears the Lord,
Who walks in His ways.

Fear of the Lord. 

Fear of the Lord - Because you love God, you love what He loves ( Righteousness) and you hate what He hates ( that is evil)

Who Walks in His ways.

Walking -  is mentioned many times in the Lord.

Your walking is always guided by some counsel.
Many people take the experts advice and walk accordingly. if you are looking for a job, you will take the counsel of a

2 When you eat the labor of your hands,
You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.n expert in that job.

Psalm 1 says - Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of ungodly.

if you go by your own counsel, your emotions might come into play - Always take counsel of godly, run by pastor, run by brother or sister.

Enoch specialty is that he always walked in the counsel of God.



V4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
Who fears the Lord.

1) Work.

First thing is - you will happy with what your work.

There are many people in this world who cannot enjoy what they do.

They always think my job is too stressful , wish i had the other person job.

there is this story of a small boy in a remote village, he is playing in the fields and one day he saw an aeroplane flying little lower above the field and he was excited and was saying to himself - wish I could fly an aeroplane, wish i would be going around all the places in this aeroplane.The pilot looking down to the fields and small boy thought and remembered his days as kid how we was playing in the fields, and now he is sick and tired of being a pilot and he says wish i could go back to the fields.

So neither the boy in field is happy nor the the pilot in the skies is happy, everyone wants to live others lives.

 

v2 When you eat the labor of your hands,
You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.

when you Fear the Lord, you will be happy with what you are doing.

Statistics say heart attacks are more common on Mondays because of the stress that is generated because of the work, blessed are the pastors who take off on monday.

Some people earn but its like a pocket with holes. 

Haggai 1:6

“You have sown much, and bring in little;
You eat, but do not have enough;
You drink, but you are not filled with drink;
You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm;
And he who earns wages,
Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”

Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
In the very heart of your house,
Your children like olive plants
All around your table.

V12

12 “Then the trees said to the vine,
‘You come and reign over us!’
13 But the vine said to them,
‘Should I cease my new wine,
Which cheers both God and men,
And go to sway over trees?’

V9

9 But the olive tree said to them,
‘Should I cease giving my oil,
With which they honor God and men,
And go to sway over trees?’