May 15, 2001
My heart is not proud, O LORD,
my eyes are not haughty;
I do not concern myself with great matters
or things too wonderful for me.
But I have stilled and quieted my soul;
like a weaned child with its mother,
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Psalm 131:1-2
I was reading the Psalms for a long time tonight and this jumped out at me... God, the perfect father, doesn't want me worrying, thinking or concerning myself with things that are above and beyond me... "great matters or things too wonderful for me". This certainly means truths that are too lofty for me as a human being but it also means things that are above the capacity of a child... that helps me see my role and God's in my life much more clearly. I'm always trying to understand, to work on something or trying to figure it out when what I need to do is 'let things go'... just like a child does when they know they can't understand something and that its in the capable hands of someone older and wiser. Children let go and let the adults do their job and the resume playing, which is their job.. in the same way all God wants me to do is to still and quiet my soul in his presence and under his wing... to know that I ma perfectly safe and secure with him... the only thing I have any control over in this life is my relationship with God.. everything else is beyond me and I need to let it go to God!