#905 – Hope in God (Psalm 131)

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David Platt

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🗓️ 31 January 2020

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Lord help our souls to be calmed and quieted as we hope in You, knowing that in You we find rest for our souls.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net.
0:06.0	Psalm chapter 131 only has three verses so I'm going to read all three
0:12.0	oh lord my heart is not lifted up. My eyes are not raised too high. I do not occupy
0:19.9	myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my
0:27.8	soul like a weaned child with its mother like a weaned child is my soul within me.
0:35.0	O Israel, hope in the Lord, from this time forth and forevermore.
0:41.0	What a great psalm!
0:45.0	Oh, there's so much to meditate on here.
0:49.7	Just don't miss the big picture.
0:52.1	The Psalm saying, my heart is not raised too high.
0:57.5	My heart is not lifted up, my eyes not raised too high,
1:01.1	occupying myself with things too great, too marvelous for me.
1:03.7	Like there are so many things we don't understand.
1:07.8	Like big theological things, we don't understand like the depths of who God is, his sovereignty, his power, his beauty,
1:18.8	his holiness, his justice, his mercy.
1:22.2	There are limits to our understanding of God, but we humble ourselves before
1:27.7	him even as we long to know him more, we are humble before him him because for the next 10 billion years because his
1:37.4	glory is infinite we'll still be discovering more and more and more. So we're humble for him and not just when it comes
1:45.2	to big theological realities about who God is but his mysteries of how he works in the world, why this or that happens around us or this or that happens in our lives.
2:01.0	Like there are so many things we don't understand. Now that could lead us just to, I mean,
2:08.2	worry, anxiety, frustration, but that's not where it leads the Psalmist. In verse two he says, but I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. Like there's all these things
2:25.7	I don't understand but my heart is at rest like a little baby with its mom just resting there. That's the picture. How is that possible? How do you
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