8. Resting

[Karen11]

On 7/19/2020 at 12:28 PM, Pastor Ralph said:

Day 8 Meditation (Psalm 127). Why is work without trust inadequate? Why is trust without work an illusion? How can we achieve the kind of balance that affords us good rest? Why do you think the psalmist stresses that children are both a “heritage” and a “reward”?

Work would be in vain, anything with out God involved is like working with sand, it will fall right through your hands. To welcome God into your family and lives in everything we do gives us rest. Children will carry on what their parents taught them to their children, having your children's love and to love them is so unbelievably precious, what a gift from God.

[Irmela]

Day 8 Meditation (Psalm 127).

Why is work without trust inadequate?

Why is trust without work an illusion?

How can we achieve the kind of balance that affords us good rest?

Why do you think the psalmist stresses that children are both a "heritage" and a "reward"?

To trust means to rely on.  You can rely on nothing and no one but Christ, for something to be successfully done.  .  So any work you do, you need to place your trust in the Lord to help you to do it correctly etc.  It is no good only trusting Him, you need to fulfill your part also and allow Him to use your mind, hands, feet etc., to accomplish the work.  So trusting and working is necessary.

Use God's work tactic that He has assigned to us in Scripture.   Working or labouring 6 days and resting on the 7th.  

A reward would be like a gift.  So children are seen to be a gift for a so called married couple.  A reward for the fact that they love each other.  A heritage or benefit would be that the parents would benefit in some way or another that they have the children.  Be it with character building, or helping them in some way, be it in old age or whatever.