Our Daily Bread Today Psalm 133 ++

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Since our passage for today is so short, 3 verses worth, I thought we’d take a look at how reading in a few different versions and translations can help us see differently. When I do this I get outside of the way I’ve always known it and I begin to really think about it.

Psalm 133:1-3
A song for the ascent to Jerusalem. A psalm of David.
1 How wonderful it is, how pleasant, when brothers live together in harmony!
2 For harmony is as precious as the fragrant anointing oil that was poured over Aaron's head, that ran down his beard and onto the border of his robe.
3 Harmony is as refreshing as the dew from Mount Hermon that falls on the mountains of Zion. And the LORD has pronounced his blessing, even life forevermore. (NLT- New Living Translation)

Psalm 133
A pilgrim song of David
1How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along!
2It's like costly anointing oilflowing down head and beard,Flowing down Aaron's beard,flowing down the collar of his priestly robes.
3It's like the dew on Mount Hermonflowing down the slopes of Zion.Yes, that's where GOD commands the blessing,ordains eternal life. (MESSAGE BIBLE)

Psalm 133
The Excellency of Brotherly Unity.
A Song of Ascents, of David.
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers R4226 to dwell together in unity!
2 It is like the precious oil R4227 upon the head, Coming down upon the beard, Even Aaron's beard, Coming down upon the edge R4228 of his robes. 3 It is like the dew R4229 of Hermon R4230
Coming down upon the mountains R4231 of Zion;
For there the LORD commanded R4232 the blessing--life R4233 forever. (New American Standard Version)
CROSS REFERENCES:R4226: Genesis 13:8; Hebrews 13:1 R4227: Exodus 29:7; 30:25,30; Leviticus 8:12 R4228: Exodus 28:33; 39:24 R4229: Proverbs 19:12; Hosea 14:5; Micah 5:7 R4230: Deuteronomy 3:9; 4:48 R4231: Psalms 48:2; 74:2; 78:68 R4232: Leviticus 25:21; Deuteronomy 28:8; Psalms 42:8 R4233: Psalms 21:4

Pslam 133
Blessed Unity of the People of God A Song of Ascents. Of David.
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity! 2It is like the precious oil upon the head, Running down on the beard, The beard of Aaron, Running down on the edge of his garments. 3It is like the dew of Hermon, Descending upon the mountains of Zion; For there the LORD commanded the blessing-- Life forevermore. (NKJV - New King James Version)

~ Lena’s Journalin’ Today ~
One of these versions says, “It’s like costly oil….” That stood out to me. I’ve always known it and have read it as saying, “It’s like the precious oil…” ya know in America, what oil to us is precious and costly, except maybe the oil we use for gasoline for our cars, right? So when I read precious oil. I don’t really get the meaning the word that God is trying to give me, for it is based on a culture that lived like 4,000 years ago, when there were no cars or gasoline discovered!
If I read, “costly oil”, I get a sense that there’s something there that is not cheap, that is worth something and to just pour it out could either be wasteful or it could be very much worth the efforts and cost.
Precious to whom? Costly to whom? What was the price? Let’s think of olive oil, and we are the olive. Our beginning was in a seed, the tree was grown from that seed and after a time of growth and strengthening, which took a lot of time, fruit came on the tree, the fruit grew and matured, oh how proud that olive must have felt to have grown to such size and have taken that long to get where it is. Now someone from the outside comes and wants to make something of it for their own use! So what do they do? Pluck the fruit off of the tree! Then they take and throw it in a basket with a bunch of others just like me (Oliver or Olivia :-)), I wonder if we’re being sent into the world now for people to see our growth and maturity and to see how plump our tree made us and how much our grower took time for us? How precious we are in His eyes?
No, baby Olivia, you are going to the press just like the others! What’s that? That’s the place where you give all of who you’ve come to be, to be completely mixed up with others like you, and squished together till you don’t look like anything at all, except olive meat and some oil! Then your meat, what you thought you were, gets thrown away or chopped up and put in a can with others who’ve been chopped up too.
This is a place where all of your identity is lost, it could be being distributed in several places with all different olives from all different locations. Then what you thought was a part of you,rather than the most of who you are, is now what they are selling for big bucks! It seems to have no substance at all, it’s liquid! You gave your life for this! This is what your life was all about? You had NO idea, but now it’s gone, all gone, and for what use?
Unity, Unity is the use, and the beauty is in the pressed together poured out life of one into the vats of others for the use of others.
What cost? The gift of a life given to others, for others, to give Him more than just an Oliver or an Olivia, but to give Him a many membered BODY in the earth, full of power, more power than one Oliver or Olivia could ever muster up. It is the expression of God, of His image in the earth. The anointing, His power on persons like you and like me, THAT is very precious! Some have had NO idea and won’t see something like that out of three verses if they don’t dig in to see.
Dig in today. The words is rich, precious, a treasure to all who desire, to dig in and chew on it and eat it’s priceless fruits!


Proverbs 27:17-19
17 You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another. 18 If you care for your orchard, you'll enjoy its fruit; if you honor your boss, you'll be honored. 19 Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.
Psalm 122:1
1 When they said, "Let's go to the house of God," my heart leaped for joy.