LentDay 16
A quieted soul
Week 2 · Saturday · Psalm 131: Like a Weaned Child
For today
Three short verses about letting go of what is too great for us. Let today be quiet, like a child content in its mother's arms.
Begin with these verses
verse 1My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me. verse 2Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, both now and forevermore.
In Christ
How this psalm points to Jesus
A theme the whole Bible completes in Christ · verse 2
Jesus, gentle and humble in heart, invites the weary to come to him and find rest for their souls, the quieted soul this psalm describes.
verse 28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. verse 29Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
verse 3“Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. verse 4Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
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