Contemplative Bible Reading

¹ Unless the Lord builds a house,
the work of the builders is wasted.
Unless the Lord protects a city,
guarding it with sentries will do no good.
² It is useless for you to work so hard
from early morning until late at night,
anxiously working for food to eat;
for God gives rest to his loved ones.

Without the LORD, our work is useless. There, wrote it. Time to move on.

Here is one problem, one thing that seems to keep us from understanding this simple item:

Timing

The world, life, whatever we want to call it, does not operate with the timing that we can understand or the timing that we want. I do something, there is a consequence. Sometimes that consequence occurs one second after my act. Sometimes that consequence occurs one generation after my act.

I may not see the uselessness of my work for a while. That hinders me seeing the truth of these statements from Psalms.

Then again, I can simply believe this Psalm and not wait for time to show me the proof.