September 8, 2024
I remember when I was a boy, my brother and the kids who lived next door to us would play nearly all day every day. I didn’t worry about whether or not I would have something to eat or clean clothes to wear. I wasn’t concerned about getting shot when I went school nor did I spend any time thinking about global warming or whether or not the aerosol deodorant I used was burning a hole in the ozone (full disclosure, I don’t think I used aerosol deodorant when I was a boy, but don’t let facts get in the way of a good illustration). I let my parents, grandparents, and other grownups worry about the big stuff. They would take care of everything. They would be sure I had food to eat, clothes to wear and a roof over my head. As a kid, I was mainly concerned about being, well, a kid. Psalm 131 talks about this. It doesn’t talk about the ozone layer, or getting shot, but it does say, “Lord, my heart is not proud nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I concern myself with great matters, nor with things to profound for me” Psalm 131:1. In other words, as God’s children, we need to be sure to stay in our lane and let God do the heavy lifting. There are many things that are too heavy for me to carry. The Psalmist calls them “great matters” or things “too profound for me.” Some stuff is best left to God. The Psalmist continues, “Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me” Psalm 131:2. David is telling us that he has learned to be the child and let his mother be the mother. Like a weaned child is calm and quiet around his mother, his soul is calm and quiet in the presence of God. How is your soul? Is it calm and quiet or is it worried and fretful? Have you learned to let God be God and handle the God things or are you busy trying to handle everything yourself? Finally, David encourages Israel to “hope in the Lord from this time forth and forever” Psalm 131:3. Where is your hope? Where is your rest? Perhaps Jesus had this Psalm of David in mind when he said we must become like little children if we want to enter the kingdom of heaven. We never get too old to have child-like faith.
Be blessed and then go be a blessing . . . Bro. Andy

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