Blessing: Unless Jehovah

Psalms 127:1 Unless Jehovah builds the house, Those who build it labor in vain. Unless Jehovah keeps the city, The guard watches in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early, To lie down late, To eat the bread of toil; All the same, He gives to His beloved while they sleep.

Jehovah God is the unique Blessing in the universe. Apart from Him there is no blessing. For He is the Blessing. All who needs blessings must come to the Blessing, and receive Him as the Blessing.

The Lord's direct speaking to me as I have been considering about the Lord's blessing in my life or family or church life or official service, is that "Unless Jehovah Blesses" there can be no blessing at all, no matter however much I labor or whatever way I take. Only Jehovah God is the Blessing, if He blesses, only then I will be blessed and we will be blessed.

Footnotes from the Recovery Version of the Bible impressed me a lot:

Unless the Lord builds the church as God's house (Matt. 16:18), those who build it (1 Cor. 3;10-12; Eph. 4:11-12, 16) labor in vain. Unless the Lord keeps the city, i.e., keeps the church as the kingdom (Matt. 16:18-19; Rom. 14:17), those who guard the church (Acts 20:28-31) watch in vain.

If  the Lord does not do anything for us, whatever we do will be in vain. We need to labor in the Lord and by His grace (1 Cor. 15:10, 58; Col.1:28-29), but what the result will be depends not on our labor but on God's care and blessing. Instead of toiling and striving in ourselves, we need to trust in Him and rest in Him, for He gives to His beloved even while they sleep.

Increase does not depend on what we do; it depends on how much God gives. Both the care and the blessing come from Him.

The speaking of the Lord through the study of the Word gave me much comfort and I was shepherded. Everyone needs blessings, and I do. In all that I do, I need the Lord's blessings, for without the Lord's blessings, I am laboring in vain.

In my life and in all my labor I need the Lord's blessings. So my prayer has always been, 

Lord, Thou art the Blessing,Do Thou bless me,With Thyself as the Blessing.Make my vessel proper;To command Thy blessings,To contain Thy blessings,To multiply Thy blessings.I need Thee Lord Jesus Christ!Thou art the Blessing!