NOTES for Psa 128
The reward promised for walking before God is an ordinary everyday life: the opportunity to eat the fruit of one’s hands and raise children. Such an offer may seem dull and tedious to some, but those who have experienced hunger, need, exile, and insecurity—the list could go on for a long time—know that the opportunity to work in peace and come home calmly in the evening is of genuine value.
How often we seek grand miracles, chase rumors of incomprehensible phenomena, and collect inexplicable facts. Meanwhile, so many everyday miracles escape our attention because they have become familiar and therefore go unnoticed.
But to those who walk righteously before God, the world reveals aspects of itself that escape the gaze of the superficial observer.