Psalm 134 is the conclusion of Psalm 133, and Psalm 133 is the continuation of Psalm 132. At the end of Psalm 132 we see that God enters into His rest and we are satisfied in the habitation of God. As a continuation, Psalm 133 describes the sweet and wonderful church life in oneness under God’s continual blessing.
The conclusion of Psalm 133 is Psalm 134 where we see that the highest people, those who live in Zion, bless everyone and teach everyone to bless the Lord! The conclusion of the sweet church life in oneness under God’s blessing is that we bless the Lord corporately – not just individually, but we bring one another into blessing the Lord!
Bless Jehovah now, all you servants of Jehovah!
Psalm 134 is a short psalm – only 3 verses, but it is so precious and so sweet. Verses 1-2 say, Bless Jehovah now, / All you servants of Jehovah / Who stand by night in the house of Jehovah. / Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, / And bless Jehovah.
The people say these words to the priests, and then the priests reply to the people, May Jehovah, who made heaven and earth, / Bless you from Zion (verse 3). This is how we should greet one another and how we should conclude the meetings in which we richly enjoy Christ – by blessing the Lord and bringing others into blessing Him! We love God’s house – let us bless Jehovah!
In the church life we shouldn’t murmur, gossip, or complain; rather, we need to bless the Lord and encourage one another to speak well of Him! As those who have the highways to Zion in their heart and who aspire to be the overcomers, we need to realize that God’s blessing comes from Zion! God blesses His church from the overcomers, from those who are in Zion.
Jerusalem is blessed from and because of Zion, and the church is blessed from and because of the overcomers. God always blesses His people from Zion, from the highest peak, from those who are the overcomers! For us to be a blessing to the church and for the Lord to bless the church because of us, we need to be the overcomers today.
Being a blessing person requires maturity in life
For us to bless others and to be a blessing to others we need to grow in life unto maturity. It is after Jacob became mature that he blessed everyone whom he met. He met Pharaoh – who was seemingly “higher than him” humanly – and he blessed him (Gen. 47:7). He blessed his children with a clarity of vision, each one, and spoke a word of prophecy over them.
Jacob was not only a blessed person but also a blessing person. He was mature in life – he was not only transformed by God in all the things he went through, but he was mature in life, therefore he could bless others. The sign of maturity in life is blessing others with God Himself.
We need to grow in life and aspire to be the overcomers the Lord needs in this age, giving the Lord more ground in our being every day. Every morning we need to have a fresh consecration to the Lord, touching Him in a personal way – not only “pressing against Him” as the crowd does, but personally touching Him to be healed, blessed, and filled with all He is.
We need to personally and intimately touch the Lord and His heart’s desire, so that He may have ground to produce us as His overcomers, the Zion of today, the vital groups. When we become matured in the divine life which fills and transforms us, we will be blessed and blessing persons, blessing others from Zion!
The oneness brings in the blessing
After we go through the processes and the experiences of humbling ourselves to have a calm heart (for God to be pleased to dwell with us) and having the church life in oneness under the spreading ointment and the descending dew, we ascend to Mount Zion where we receive the blessing and we bless others!
As we advance, as we ascend, we simply bless! We bless the priests, the people, the serving ones, the young and the old – and we are being blessed by God’s people. You are blessing me and I am blessing you in Zion! When there’s the oneness in our living and in the church life, the issue is just blessing.
How do we bless one another? How do we bless the Lord? According to Eph. 5, in the church life we need to speak to one another in Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, having grace in our hearts, and thanking the Lord for all things.
We bless one another by speaking the word of God to one another with an exercised spirit. We bless God by speaking well of Him, His accomplishments, His heart’s desire, and all that He is. This is the church life today – a life in which we bless God, we bless the saints, and we become a blessing to everyone by living in oneness in the Body of Christ!
Lord, bring us all the way to Zion, to the place of blessing! Transform us and mature us in life, Lord, that we may no longer complain, murmur, or gossip, but we would bless You and bless others. May we live here, in Zion, in Your habitation, all the days of our life. We want to bless You, Lord, and speak well of You in all Your doings, Your accomplishments, Your person, and in what You are! Blessed be the Lord! Bless the Lord from Zion!
References and Further Reading
- Sharing inspired from Christ and the Church Revealed and Typified in the Psalms (ch. 21) and portions from the Life-study of Genesis, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on the Crystallization-Study of Psalms (2), week 22.
- Hymns on this topic:
# Come bless the Lord, (Come bless the Lord,) / All ye servants of the Lord, (All ye servants of the Lord,) / Who stand by night, (Who stand by night,)
# O bless the Lord out of Zion, / O let His praises swell, / O bless the Lord out of Zion, / Ye who in Jerusalem dwell.
# Blessed is the man whose heart, to / Zion, is an open way; / He’s the one whose strength is in Thee;
