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Psalm chapter 131.

Three short, beautiful, awesome, comforting verses.

Let me read them.

Psalm 131, verse 1.

Oh, 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.

You get the picture here?

The psalmist is like a weaned child with its mother.

Like just picture a child lying in the lap of its mom, just resting, calm and quiet.

Don't picture like screaming, crying child, like calm and quiet. Don't picture like screaming, crying child,

like calm and quiet child

peacefully resting in the arms of its mother.

And that's what the psalmist says describes

his heart before God.

My heart is not lifted up, my eyes not raised too high. I am resting,

trusting, hoping in you. Oh, I just want to pray that over you and me over every single person who's listening to this right now that we would see ourselves in this way.

And as people are sending in different prayer requests to radical.net slash prayer request

in this pandemic and we're praying for each other accordingly. I just have to read this from

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