[S] Psalm 128:3-4 --
3 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine Within your house, Your children like olive plants Around your table.4 Behold, for thus shall the man be blessed Who fears the LORD.
[O] I don't know the exact symbolism of the vine and the olive plants, but what I gather from the context is the sense of fruitfulness when a family fears the LORD. In many ways than not, my focus (or purpose) of living out my life gets fuzzy with so much going on that I actually forget about how critical it is for me to lead my family to bear fruits of life and in a figure of speech, how I need to make sure my family members' lives are fertilized, watered, and pruned for them to be fruitful in and out of season. This passage gives me a picture of abundance overflowing and that's the prototype family I'd like to help lead into as a husband and father.
[A] Calibrate my purpose of living such that my family will be prepared and nurtured to be fruitful in God's eyes. We must stay humble and fear God at all times. I need to learn how to prune out non-essential items from my schedule so I can dedicate my time to the most essential items.
[P] Dear God, please teach me to fear You at all times as the forerunner in my family so the rest of my family may follow me; even though asking this could boost my ego, I want to stay humble and pure of following after Your heart. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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