Behaved Breast Calm Calmed Child Compared Composed Kept Mother's Myself Quiet Quieted Restrained Rests Silent Soul Stilled Surely Weaned Within
131:2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul [is] even as a {c} weaned child.
(c) He was void of ambition and wicked desires.
131:2 Surely - When my mind was provoked. Weaned - Wholly depending upon God's providence, as the poor helpless infant, relies upon its mother for support.
131:1-3 The psalmist's humility. Believers encouraged to trust in God. - The psalmist aimed at nothing high or great, but to be content in every condition God allotted. Humble saints cannot think so well of themselves as others think of them. The love of God reigning in the heart, will subdue self-love. Where there is a proud heart, there is commonly a proud look. To know God and our duty, is learning sufficiently high for us. It is our wisdom not to meddle with that which does not belong to us. He was well reconciled to every condition the Lord placed him in. He had been as humble as a little child about the age of weaning, and as far from aiming at high things; as entirely at God's disposal, as the child at the disposal of the mother or nurse. We must become as little children, Mt 18:3. Our hearts are desirous of worldly things, cry for them, and are fond of them; but, by the grace of God, a soul that is made holy, is weaned from these things. The child is cross and fretful while in the weaning; but in a day or two it cares no longer for milk, and it can bear stronger food. Thus does a converted soul quiet itself under the loss of what it loved, and disappointments in what it hoped for, and is easy whatever happens. When our condition is not to our mind, we must bring our mind to our condition; then we are easy to ourselves and all about us; then our souls are as a weaned child. And thus the psalmist recommends confidence in God, to all the Israel of God, from his own experience. It is good to hope, and quietly to wait for the salvation of the Lord under every trial.
Behaved Breast Calm Calmed Child Compared Composed Kept Mother Mother's Quiet Quieted Restrained Rests Silent Soul Stilled Surely Weaned Within
Behaved Breast Calm Calmed Child Compared Composed Kept Mother Mother's Quiet Quieted Restrained Rests Silent Soul Stilled Surely Weaned Within
