Psalm 128 is a declaration of God’s blessing. If you have trusted in Christ and have given your life to God, then this psalm is a promise to you. God promises to bless you. After declaring this blessing over those who ‘fear the Lord’ (i.e. those who have ultimate regard for God) the psalmist then gives some examples of how God might want to bless you. That God wants to bless you is a matter of certainty. How God will bless you is not something we can know in advance. That’s up to him. It is also for God to choose the right timing for us to receive particular blessings from him. If you feel that you lack some blessing, don’t therefore assume that God does not want to bless you. First of all, you should pray and seek God for the things you want. But, after all is said and done, it is God’s prerogative to decide how and when to bless you. And if, at the end of your life, you are left lacking something then you are in good company. In this short mortal life, we all lack the fulness of what God wants us to have. God’s purpose to bless us is never completely fulfilled on this side of heaven. In fact, compared to what we will have in eternal life, every blessing we gain now is but a taste of the glory to come. God is faithful, but you will not see the completion of his faithfulness until you are raised up to eternal life in a new heavens and a new earth.
Ask God for the things you long for and reflect on the brevity of this life and the glories to come in the next.
Read Psalm 128.
