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Psalms 131
Verse Two
Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul,
Like a weaned child with his mother;
Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
A weaned child is not simply transitioning from milk to solid food.
Weaning involves an infant learning to survive without the "suck reflex",
by which they calm themselves. Until they can understand "take a deep breath", they need assistance. Hence the pacifier.
So how does one attain to a calm and quiet soul?
Verse One
Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty.
Neither do I concern myself with great matters,
Nor with things too profound for me.
Isaiah ministers in the Spirit of the Comforter
30:15 For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:
In returning and rest you shall be saved;
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.
32:17 The work of righteousness will be peace,
And the effect of righteousness,
quietness and assurance forever.
A Call for us to minister in comfort
Isaiah 40:
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her
warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned:
for she hath received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
Psalms 131
Verse Three
O Israel, hope in the Lord
From this time forth and forever.
Verse Two
Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul,
Like a weaned child with his mother;
Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
A weaned child is not simply transitioning from milk to solid food.
Weaning involves an infant learning to survive without the "suck reflex",
by which they calm themselves. Until they can understand "take a deep breath", they need assistance. Hence the pacifier.
So how does one attain to a calm and quiet soul?
Verse One
Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty.
Neither do I concern myself with great matters,
Nor with things too profound for me.
Isaiah ministers in the Spirit of the Comforter
30:15 For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:
In returning and rest you shall be saved;
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.
32:17 The work of righteousness will be peace,
And the effect of righteousness,
quietness and assurance forever.
A Call for us to minister in comfort
Isaiah 40:
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her
warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned:
for she hath received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
Psalms 131
Verse Three
O Israel, hope in the Lord
From this time forth and forever.
