God’s blessing (as described in this Psalm) meant fruitful labor, children and grandchildren. It also meant a prosperous nation.

It is not wrong to assume that having peace or absence of war was an additional blessing from the God of Israel in that day.

Fear of the Lord meant reverence for Him and His word. Today, we also have an obligation to fear the Lord. The “blessing”, however, that results will not necessarily be peace from earthly war but peace with God.

We are no longer under a Suzerain-vassal treaty as the nation of Israel had with YHWH but under the new covenant agreement based on God’s promise for the anointed One (aka the Messiah or the Christ). (See Jeremiah 31)

This covenant was fulfilled when Jesus Christ the Lord took on the sins of the world. He is the Father’s way to provide redemption from sin for mankind plus to fulfill the Father’s desire to include those from every tribe, tongue, people and nation into His kingdom.

As much as I love my grandchildren, I am even more grateful for Jesus Christ, my Savior. He is my blessing. He blessed me by making peace with God on my behalf.

I can pass this great blessing on to my children and grandchildren. – Teresa #legacyofpeace

Psalm 128:1-6 (ESV) *

Blessed Is Everyone Who Fears the Lord

A Song of Ascents.

128 Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,
who walks in his ways!
² You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands;
you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

³ Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like olive shoots
around your table.
⁴ Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
who fears the Lord.

⁵ The Lord bless you from Zion!
May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem
all the days of your life!
⁶ May you see your children’s children!
Peace be upon Israel!

*Oneyearbibleonline

Jeremiah 31:31-34 (ESV)

The New Covenant

[31] “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, [32] not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD. [33] For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. [34] And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Hebrews 10:1-10 ESV

Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All

[1] For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. [2] Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? [3] But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. [4] For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

[5] Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; [6] in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. [7] Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’” [8] When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), [9] then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. [10] And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.