Quieting Our Souls (Psalm 131:1–3)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 2 July 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Psalm 131:1–3, David Platt explains how we can spend find peace in the presence of God.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:05.7	Psalm chapter 131.
0:07.2	O Lord, my heart is not lifted up.
0:09.8	My eyes are not raised too high.
0:12.1	I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.
0:16.7	But I have calmed and quieted my soul like a weaned child with its mother.
0:21.8	Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
0:25.0	O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore.
0:29.5	This is one of my favorite Psalms, three verses.
0:32.0	And the posture of humility and the experience of rest and quiet is so beautiful.
0:40.1	From the very beginning, the psalmist David in this circumstance saying,
0:44.4	O Lord, my heart is not lifted up.
0:46.4	My eyes are not raised too high.
0:48.3	I do not occupy myself with things too great and marvelous for me.
0:52.6	In other words, there are things that the psalmist that David does not understand
0:58.1	that he can't see and know.
1:00.6	There are things too great and marvelous for him.
1:02.9	And we all know what it's like to be in that circumstance
1:07.6	to have things going on in our lives, around our lives,
1:11.4	around the world that we don't understand.
1:13.7	And oftentimes really hard things that we don't understand why this is happening
1:19.3	or what is happening around us.
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