Becoming A Warrior

Psalm 128 opens with a blessed house, a happy house, where the fear of the Lord means the knowledge of the Lord and a life that walks in His ways. The text puts children “like olive plants all around your table,” and that picture slows everything down. The olive tree can grow in rocky soil, desert soil, hard soil, but it does not produce quick fruit. The olive plant takes years before fruit shows up, and even then the first fruit is bitter, yet a properly planted tree can live for 20 generations.