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Tuesday... It is so easy to take them for granted.


Tuesday... It is so easy to take them for granted.

It really is. But he keeps blessing us and blessing us.

Solomon the writer of Psalm 127:1 (AMP) says, "Unless the Lord builds the house. they labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord builds the city, the watchman keeps awake in vain."


We can go back to Psalm 121 to reinforce this blessing. He says in verse 1, "I will lift up my eyes to the hills [of Jerusalem] - from where shall my help come?" Verse 3, "He will not allow your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber." And verse 5, "The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand." Oh, God, may we not take this for granted.

Back to Psalm 127:2. It says, "It is vain for you to rise early, to retire late, to eat bread of anxious labors - for He gives [blessings] to His beloved even in His sleep." Again, "He give [blessings] to His beloved."

And here is another one that we take for granted. Verse 3 says, "Behold, children are a heritage and a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward." Deuteronomy 28:4 says, "The offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your animals, the offspring of your herd and the young of your flock will be blessed."

Margaret and I have a son, Brett and a daughter, Stefanie who with Marissa and Andrew have given us four granddaughters. Penny will be going into 1st grade, Harper is going into middle school, Addison is headed to high school and we are going to Colorado in a couple of weeks to see Ashlyn graduate from high school and then go off to college in California. Without a doubt they each are a gift, a blessing from the Lord and the Lord will bless them.  Verse 5 says, "How blessed [happy and fortunate] is the man whose quiver is filled with them." And that is so true. It can be so easy for us to take each one of them for granted.

And I love what the end of verse 2 says, "For He gives [blessings] to His beloved even in His sleep." I love that, "even in His sleep." The first part of this verse says, "It is vain for you to rise early, to retire late, to eat the bread of anxious labors." Yes we get so anxious, don't we? But "He gives [blessings] even in His sleep." The Message says, "Don't you know he enjoys giving rest to those he loves?" 

O Father, You are so good to us. May we not take your blessings for granted. Yes, "He gives blessings even in His sleep." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning




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