RPG Adults
“HOME SWEET HOME”
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5
Psalm 128:1-6
Acts 16:30-34
Christ is the Head
in my home.
“HOME SWEET HOME”
In this Song of degrees, there is an evident ascent from the last Psalm. A house may be built up, but this shows a picture of the house built, and adorned with bliss, through God’s benediction.
There is clearly an advance in age. For here we go beyond children to children’s children. We also progress in happiness. Children which in the last Psalm were arrows are here olive plants. Thus we sing step by step as we ascend.
This is a family hymn: a song for marriage, or a birth or for any day in which a happy household has met to the praise of God. It is a short Psalm but exceedingly full and suggestive. This is a “Home Sweet Home” Psalm.
“Thy wife shall be in the inner part of thy house
Like a fruitful vine;
Thy children round about thy table
Like the shoots of the olive.”
The religious life, which God declares to be blessed (Ps 128:1), must be practical as well as emotional. It is idle to talk of fearing the Lord if we act like those who have no care whether there be a God or not. God’s ways will be our ways if we have a sincere reverence for Him: if the heart is joined unto God, the feet will follow hard after Him. A man’s heart will be seen in his walk, and the blessing will come where heart and walk are both with God. God’s ways are blessed ways.
Dear reader, don’t you want the blessed ways?
THOUGHT: There is no place like home.
PRAYER: Father, bless my home.