For today’s post I want to do something a little different. The other night I was sitting in a Steak & Shake, waiting to go pick my daughter up from gymnastics, and I just felt led to read the Psalms. Because I tend to always read the early ones, I started from Psalm 150 and went backwards. So, I ate, and read, and journaled. And then, I decided I would stop reading at Psalm 135, pay, and head out. Yet, for some reason I keep going. Psalm 134. Psalm 133. Psalm 132. And finally, Psalm 131. It is short, just 3 verses, but what it said was just really powerful to me. It has been an up and down week. Good news, bad news. Back and forth. Till finally, alone on a Thursday night, I am just worn out, kind of depressed, and thinking way too hard about things that I probably can’t deal with right now. And I read Psalm 131 and it makes it all clear.
So, I don’t want to commentate, don’t want to make any additional comments, I simply want you to read Psalm 131 and think about how it might apply to your life and the things that get you down, just as I did when God so providentially led me to it.
Psalm 131
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
O LORD, my heart is not lifted up;
my eyes are not raised too high;
I do not occupy myself with things
too great and too marvelous for me.
But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
O Israel, hope in the LORD
from this time forth and forevermore.
