Psalm 127

Psalm 127 
English Standard Version (ESV)

  What does it depend on for your car to start in the morning?  A strong battery.  A working alternator.  A myriad of moving pieces that must all work together in concert for the car to start running to enable you to go about your day.
  What about your body?  Our hearts and brains must be functioning, as well as a number of other complicated systems.  If your brain takes the day off, you won't make it very far.
  When we build a life upon something other than God, we can still function in this world, but ultimately, it will be revealed that this was a poor choice, because one day chaos and turmoil will enfold us, and we'll discover that whatever we trusted in that was not God is not powerful enough to deliver us.  We'll go to start the car and nothing will happen, and only then will we realize how foolish we have been.
  When we trust in God, we may not see a difference in every moment of our lives.  But God is strengthening and preparing us for greater things ahead, and in the hours and moments that seem like trials, the seeds we have planted will come into their fullness and bear fruit that nourishes the souls and quenches the thirst.

May we trust in God to lead us down the right paths that lead to eternal life, rooted in Christ