I know it’s hard to be reverent to anything in our day and age and it’s sad to say so. But there is reaping to be done in our reverence to God.
Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord , who walks in his ways! You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you. (Psalm 128:1-2)
The Psalmist writes that if whoever “fears the Lord shall be blessed” and I want to say that conclusion is absolutely and undoubtedly true. However, to understand that truth or to apply it in our lives, we have to dig into what that means for us on a daily basis and interpret how we live it out on our daily lives. First off, you can interchange the word, “fear” and “revere” because “fear” means to “revere”. When we “revere” somebody or something, we give him/her/it respect and honor. That is to say that we obey and bend for the sake of that which we are revering. When we are revering God and doing like Jesus, because Jesus is God, then the “labor of our hands” is actually doing the things that Jesus did. Jesus proclaimed the good news, healed the sick, fed the hungry, loved the unloved. Our labor likewise, is doing what Jesus did as God on earth.
The Psalmist is saying that the blessing we will receive in doing what God does because we respect, honor and cherish what God is doing will be a blessing for us. It shall be well for us who do those things. I don’t want to get into corporeally when doing what God does leads to pain, death, and destruction, because it can tangibly lead to those things, we’ve all witnessed the tragedy before. But I will tell you that even that end may be a blessing because it shall be well– that is our salvation is God and the reward we have is Him and in Him.
Let’s go and reap reverence to God and labor like He labors today.
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