Psalm 128:1-4 “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. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. Yes, this will be the blessing for the man who fears the Lord.”
A couple Sunday ago, Pastor Kyle preached a Father’s Day sermon on Psalm 128 that more than wealth and prosperity is found in reverence, obedience and giving to the Lord; to lovingly walk in His holy Word, Will and Way; making the choice of faith and family together. Noah Webster, in his 1828 Webster’s dictionary defined the word “fear” as: In scripture, fear is used to express a filial or a slavish passion. In good men, the fear of God is a holy awe or reverence of God and his laws, which springs from a just view and real love of the divine character, leading the subjects of it to hate and shun every thing that can offend such a holy being, and inclining them to aim at perfect obedience. This is filial fear. The worship of God. The law and word of God. Reverence; respect; due regard. Slavish fear is the effect or consequence of guilt; it is the painful apprehension of merited punishment. The love of God casts out fear. 1John 4. The most powerful gift a father can give his family is the fear and obey the Lord, their God. The family will follow.
Deuteronomy 6:4-7 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord
your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”
Run towards the shelter of God in the storms of life and troubling times. For Proverbs 18:10 says that, “The name of the Lord is a fortified tower; the righteousrun to it and are safe.” Fathers must shelter their family and run to God, who will comfort them. The Lord God Almighty promises us a safe haven. Shelter naturally produces the feeling of safety and peace. The things of God cultivate a joyful life, sheltered by God’s favor and protection. Isaiah 25:4 tells us, “You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat.”
Psalm 1:1-3 “Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.”
Let’s continue Pastor Kyle’s excellent Father’s Day message in the next post.
In Christ, Brian
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