Like A Weaned Child

 A Song of Ascents. Of David. 

LORD, 

my heart is not haughty, Nor my eyes lofty. 

Neither do I concern myself with great matters, 

Nor with things too profound for me.

  Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, 

Like a weaned child with his mother;

Like a weaned child is my soul within me.  

O Israel, hope in the LORD From this time forth and forever.
Psalm 131

Dear Girls,

I love this one.  It is so short and yet full of such wisdom.  Like the psalmist, I want to be like a weaned child that crawls up on his beloved's lap and is content with just resting his head against him. He is satisfied in their presence and does not concern himself with matters that are too weighty for him.  He knows he doesn't understand much or have all the answers. He seeks only to rest in his mother or his father's arms knowing they do.

A child in the process of weaning is discontented and irritable. We are often the same way in the midst of a difficulty. What we need to remember in our times of trial is that our hope is in the Lord and that in His presence is fullness of joy. A weaned child no longer comes to you fretting, gesturing and demanding to be satisfied but cuddles and rests quietly against you.  He can't figure it all out and doesn't want to figure it all out.  He just trusts that you know the way that he takes and will get him where he needs to go.  Our Father in Heaven has given us such a beautiful picture here of what it means to abide and surrender.  Let Him hold you....let Him direct your steps...He's got it figured out...trust Him.  Abide. Wait on Him.

Love

Mom

Psalm 91

Safety of Abiding in the Presence of God

 ¹ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
         Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
 ² I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
         My God, in Him I will trust.”
     
 ³ Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler^[a]
         And from the perilous pestilence.
 ⁴ He shall cover you with His feathers,
         And under His wings you shall take refuge;
         His truth shall be your shield and buckler.
 ⁵ You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
         Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
 ⁶ Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
         Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.
     
 ⁷ A thousand may fall at your side,
         And ten thousand at your right hand;
         But it shall not come near you.
 ⁸ Only with your eyes shall you look,
         And see the reward of the wicked.
     
 ⁹ Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge,
         Even the Most High, your dwelling place,
 ¹⁰ No evil shall befall you,
         Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;
 ¹¹ For He shall give His angels charge over you,
         To keep you in all your ways.
 ¹² In their hands they shall bear you up,
         Lest you dash your foot against a stone.
 ¹³ You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
         The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.
     
 ¹⁴ “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
         I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
 ¹⁵ He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
         I will be with him in trouble;
         I will deliver him and honor him.
 ¹⁶ With long life I will satisfy him,
         And show him My salvation.”