the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Psalms 127:1.
Luther on these words says, " Let the Lord build and manage the house; meddle not with this work; it is his part, and not thine own to take care of it; therefore leave the care to him that is the supreme Landlord and husbandman. Is there much wanted to furnish and provide for a house? The Lord is greater than a house. He that fills heaven and earth will Certainly be able to fill a house. No wonder that there is a great want in a house, if God is not the governor in it! Because thou dost not see him that is to fill the house, surely all the corners must seem to be empty; but looking upon him thou wouldst never observe one corner to be empty, every one would seem to be full, and is really full. If it is not, the fault is only in thy eye, as it is in a blind man who cannot see the sun. To him that sees rightly, the Lord changes the word, and says not, there goes much into a house, but there goes much out of it.’’
O Lord, give only faith, love, and knowledge of thy will, that I may not only expect all things confidently from thy hand, since a labourer is worthy of his hire; but also manage every thing afterwards as a faithful steward to such purposes thou hast granted it for, be it for my own use, or for the use of others. That I may never be saving to thy dishonour, for my purse is thine, and consequently rich enough.
’Tis all in vain, till God hath blest;
He can make rich, yet give us rest:
Children and friends are blessings too.
If God our sovereign makes them so.
