You Will Eat The Fruit of Your Labor

     Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him. You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours - Psalm 128:1, 2. 

             We are so blessed when we fear the Lord and walk in His ways as we will eat the fruit of our labor and blessings and prosperity will be ours. And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today for your good? - Deuteronomy 10:12,13.  The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none - Deuteronomy 28:12.

Gift of God

               It is the gift of God for us to eat and drink and enjoy the good of all our labor. Every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor - it is the gift of God - Ecclesiastes 3:13. It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; for it is his heritage. As for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and given him power to eat of it, to receive his heritage and rejoice in his labor - this is the gift of God - Ecclesiastes 5:18, 19. 

By God and not by us

              It is only the God who gives us the increase and the power to get wealth and not by us. And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth - Deuteronomy 8:18. Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain - Psalm 127:1. Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight, declares the Lord - Jeremiah 9:23, 24.

Thank God

             Let us fear God and walk in His ways and thank God for His gift to eat and drink and enjoy the good of all our labor. The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it - Proverbs 10:22. It is the blessing of the Lord that makes us rich and so let us glorify God by our work. Let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need - Ephesians 4:28. And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men - Colossians 3:23.    

            Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil - Ecclesiastes 12:13-14.

PRAYER: Dear Lord, Let us be blessed by fearing You and by walking in obedience to You as we will eat the fruit of your labor and blessings and prosperity will be ours. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.