PSALM 131
I must admit, I can be nosy about “big meetings.” If I pass a room with
my boss (Pastor Tim) and other leaders in the church talking together, I
am always curious what they are talking about. What’s going on? Why
wasn’t I invited? Will they make important decisions without me?
This psalm reminds me that such a response is basically a result of pride.
One of the ways God is teaching me to overcome arrogance is to show
me that I do not need to “involve myself great matters, or in things too
difficult for me.” (v. 1) That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be ready to take up
great or difficult matters that are my responsibility; it simply means that
I don’t have to stick my nose into everything, because God is big enough
to handle running the universe without me.
Perhaps you are a bit like me, and you need to be “weaned from worry,”
like the child pictured in verse 2 who no longer cries out but is able to
rest and be quiet, because she trusts in her mother’s wisdom and timing.
What a beautiful picture of peace is promised for those willing to part
with their pride and hold on instead to the hand of hope. –Ken Roach
I must admit, I can be nosy about “big meetings.” If I pass a room with
my boss (Pastor Tim) and other leaders in the church talking together, I
am always curious what they are talking about. What’s going on? Why
wasn’t I invited? Will they make important decisions without me?
This psalm reminds me that such a response is basically a result of pride.
One of the ways God is teaching me to overcome arrogance is to show
me that I do not need to “involve myself great matters, or in things too
difficult for me.” (v. 1) That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be ready to take up
great or difficult matters that are my responsibility; it simply means that
I don’t have to stick my nose into everything, because God is big enough
to handle running the universe without me.
Perhaps you are a bit like me, and you need to be “weaned from worry,”
like the child pictured in verse 2 who no longer cries out but is able to
rest and be quiet, because she trusts in her mother’s wisdom and timing.
What a beautiful picture of peace is promised for those willing to part
with their pride and hold on instead to the hand of hope. –Ken Roach