Psalm 127

Psalm 127, John 15:5, Matthew 11: 28-30

How often do we find our souls anxious? Not just our thoughts or experiences, but our soul. The deepest and most treasured part of us may feel the weight of worry, pride, or control. It’s easy to believe that any success or work comes from our own hand or ability. Like if “we don’t, then no one will”. In so many ways this speaks to the desire of my own sin. To have a strong grip on the things happening around me because feeling like I have control over it all for a moment feels safer than allowing God to work. But this Psalm so clearly redirects our attention to how this type of control will not bring everlasting joy or rest. 

When we build a house in vain (in our own skill or ability) it produces nothing. David is writing this Psalm to his son Solomon with the hope that he doesn’t rely on himself to rebuild a home or a kingdom. David points him to the truth that apart from God we can do NOTHING. Jesus in John 15 calls himself the vine and we are the branches. As branches we cannot grow apart from the vine. We cannot bear fruit through our own skill. 

Whether you are trying to achieve a good job, more money, status, friends, building community, a strong Village, stop trying to do it out of our own strength. In Matthew 11, Jesus tells us that His yoke is EASY. The weight placed on your shoulders and the weight you have placed upon yourself can be lifted only through the grace and mercy of Jesus. 

Today believe that the burden you feel can be lifted. It can be healed. It can be redeemed. Not because of anything you did or built, but because God is capable of building it.