Psalm 131:1-2 English Standard Version

I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul

1 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.
2 But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.

This is David, I am not David.

Perhaps it is because I occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous. The motivation of my heart is to know God in a close and intimate relationship. How David weaned himself from attitude seems beyond me because I do not consider myself as a child weaned from mother’s milk.

Isaiah 28:9 “To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?”

There is the question, what is the answer?

Isaiah 28:10 “For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”

Isn’t this exactly what I have been doing?

Isaiah 28:16 therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’

It seems that rather than enjoying my Walk with Jesus, I am impatient to obtain a promise whose time has not come. Yet.

And here I thought I had dealt with my impatience.

Lord help me.

“I am.”