Psalm 131
131 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
3 Let Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth and for ever.
The psalmist does not assume or pretend to high knowledge, but has humbled his soul like a child weaned from its mother.
His relationship with God is one of patience and waiting. He is not nursing at the breast of God – not taking in all and satisfied with warmth and floating in fullness. No. That may have been his or her experience at one time – maybe when faith was first kindled. But now he has learned to be content and that all will come in time. This is the Christian life. We live in tension between what is promised and desired, on the one hand, and what has been already given on the other. What life teaches us is to have patience and wait as a weaned child waits for the satisfaction of its needs.
But we must also not lose the hope for the perfect fulfillment – the satisfaction of heart’s desire.
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