For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
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… hey, how are you doing? She would always say, oh, I am too blessed to be stressed. And it's just awesome, and it's true. Too blessed to be stressed. Psalm 128 verses 1 and 2. blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his way. And this verse two would surprise some people. When you eat the labor of your hands, you shall be happy and it shall be well with you. The New Testament speaks of this simplicity of life, this quietness, just enjoying the life that God's given us. Now listen, enjoying life as a gift from God versus pursuing enjoyment as the goal of this life are two very different things. Jesus did say that in the pursuit of your life, you'll lose it. But we can often go so far in the other direction. Ecclesiastes 2.25, I think the NASB 95 gets it really well. I think the new King James misses it a little bit. But he asks this question. He says, for who, Solomon says, for who can eat and can have enjoyment without him. I love that. The Christian, more than anyone, should be able to enjoy the good things that God's given to us because we actually have someone to be thankful for. You see, an unbeliever, they go and see a sunset. What are they going to say? Thank you, Mother Earth? It's lame. …
… Look in verses 2 and 3. Thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands. Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house. and thy children like olive plants round about thy table. Now folks, that's where it's at. Your wife, your children, the family fellowship right there. There she is clinging to you like a vine, fruitful, luxuriant. There you are providing for the family, eating the labor of your hands. There are your children like olive plants, which are very valuable in the Middle East, having that fellowship. Folks, if people today who are foregoing having children so they can have things would wake up and understand that children don't make a rich man poor, they make a poor man rich. You can't take your riches to heaven. I'm taking my children to heaven. A very wise man, a gifted man, looked back upon his life and asked himself, if I could do it all over again, what would I do with my family? …
… Blessed is everyone that feareth the Lord, that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands. Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house. Thy children, like olive plants, round about thy table. Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion. Thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children and peace upon Israel. Well, we're talking about contentment. What is contentment? May I give you a definition of contentment? Contentment, here it is, is an inner sufficiency that keeps us at peace in spite of outward circumstances. Now actually in the New Testament the word contentment has the idea of being self-contained. You remember Paul said when he was in that Philippian jail, I've learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. …