The Lord God is involved, and wants to be involved, in all the everyday affairs of human life. He is interested in the things we do and the decisions we make. Having the Lord nearby with us for conversation, interaction and guidance makes life more fun, more interesting, and more fulfilling.
The advice is clear: involve the Lord in your daily life and decision-making. This advice is more easily acknowledged than it is implemented. We know that if something is of God it will succeed and blessings will follow; if it is of us alone without God’s involvement it will fail. “Unless the Lord build….Unless the Lord keep…” it will all be in vain, empty, useless. Pride and Unbelief fight hard to prevent us from living like this. Pride wants to take credit. Unbelief doesn’t think God cares.
Pride and Unbelief are enemies of life and continually keep God out of the picture; when God is ignored the joy of life is gone as well. When pride and unbelief are ignored by the Gospel the Lord is free to build and keep watch over: the temple in our body, the family in our life, and the city where we dwell. God is there.