Dear Church,

I’ve received a few reflections from yesterday’s message, and I’m moved by how the Holy Spirit has been speaking through His Word. One person said, “Psalm 127 describes exactly where I am.” Maybe it’s true for you too. Some of us are tired… not just physically, but spiritually and emotionally. And it’s not always the weight of life that wears us down; it’s the fact that we’re carrying what God never asked us to carry.

But here’s the mercy of God we see in Psalm 127: It’s God saying, “Lay down your hammer. Come back to Me.”  “Surrender your obsession with controlling every outcome. Rest in My arms.”

True security doesn’t come from what you can control, it comes from who you trust, and what you’re willing to place in the hands of the One you trust.”

Maybe your Monday started already in motion with emails, projects, parenting, and pressure. But before you go further, hear the gentle rebuke and loving call of the Lord from Haggai 1:5–7  “Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. You have sown much and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.”

It’s not that your work doesn’t matter; it’s that without God at the center, all our striving falls short. The people of Haggai’s day were busy building their own houses while neglecting the Lord’s.  And the Lord, in love, said: “Consider your ways.”

What are you building today?  And who are you building it with?

Let’s invite Jesus back to the center of our lives, our work, and our plans.

Be Encouraged,

Mathews