You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan continues unpacking Psalm 131, which contrast rest and contentment with pride and haughtiness.

Dan invites us to look at some of the messages of entitlement, demand, and pressure that often drive us

to strive for a false Eden rather than resting in the work God is calling us to.

Last week, I had the privilege of being with my dear friend, Trevor Longman, the third, talking about Psalm 131.

So let me remind you what we're hoping to engage over this series of reflection on Psalm 131.

As I think back to my really February, March, April, May,

and a good portion of June, I, it's been perhaps one of the busiest, more complex periods

that I have encountered in a long season, both of conferences, travel, interactions with regard

to the complexity of the future of the Alwinter Center.

Everything has felt overwhelming, weighty, exhausting.

And as we move into the summer, move into a period that at least prototypically for most academics, is a season more of rest.

I have needed to focus my life and heart on a North Star that gives me a perspective about not only the availability and necessity of rest, but how to enter it well so that I am

refreshed for what the summer holds and what the rest of the year holds. And so we've been thinking

about Psalm 131. But I want to take us into a category, first of all, that Jesus really wants rest for us. You know, the classic

passage to look at is Matthew 11. And I'm reading from the New Living Translation, and I'm going

to read a pretty lengthy passage. Then Jesus prayed this prayer, O Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth,

thank you for hiding the truth from those who think

themselves so wise and clever and for revealing it to the childlike.

Yes, Father, it is pleased for you to do it this way.

And then Jesus talks about the authority that he has been given the uniqueness of revealing

the Father and the Father

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