Psalm :2 and my Dad

             

              My dad always told me growing up “anything you want to do in life is worth working hard to achieve”. He also always repeated a particular scripture from the Bible, it was Psalm 128:2 “You will eat the fruit of your labor, and blessing and prosperity will be yours” (NIV). Growing up, what I remember is how hard my dad worked. He never missed a day, and to this day he still is a die hard. He will go to work being literally deathly ill, he even went to work when he had the west Nile virus. I always told him as teenager, “just take a day off”, and then he would always quote me this scripture. He also made it known that if I wanted to continue eating, he would have to continue to work!  My Dad was such an inspiration to me, and has made me the man I am today.  I feel that if there’s something you want in life you should have to work hard for it. Too many times in life, things just get handed to people on a silver platter, and they don’t have to work for it.  I also think that in this day in age; too many people take things for granted. I am a firm believer that if you haven’t worked for it, you don’t take care of it as well as if you worked to pay for it. For example, my wife’s parents bought her a can when she turned sixteen, and she was horrible at taking care of it. She never had the oil changed; tires rotated, or never cleaned it.  After two years, her car died, she ended up having to buy a new one. Well, this time it was a different story because she had to make the payment. Let me tell you, her car was so clean, and she also kept up on maintenance and she drove the same car for 9 years, and never had a problem with it.  I, on the other hand had to buy my own vehicle, l worked and saved for a few years before I could afford my first truck. I was so careful with that truck, and kept it clean, and did all the regular maintenance myself. This taught me a lot about how to take care of everything I own.

We eat the fruits of our labor in many ways, not just money and material things. Also, being Christian myself, this scripture means more to me than just working hard at work; it also means that if you take time out to study God’s word, and pray, “You will eat the fruit of your labor, and have blessings and prosperity"(NIV), as the Bible says. If you take time out for God, he will take time out for you in so many ways. Every day I see God working in my life in many ways, whether He’s showing me what is right and wrong, or putting me through a trial to test my faith. Even reading my Bible on a daily basis, I find myself astounded by how much it relates to my life.  This passage from the Bible replays over and over in my head on a daily basis, and if I don’t want to go to work , I can still see my father telling saying this to me , as if I was a child again.