Be still in my presence......

Psalm 131

My heart is not proud, O LORD,
my eyes are not haughty;
I do not concern myself with great matters
or things too wonderful for me.

But I have stilled and quieted my soul;
like a weaned child with its mother,
like a weaned child is my soul within me.

O Israel, put your hope in the LORD
both now and forevermore.

How much I want to experience this. How often do we come to God in times like this and fret and worry about needing to know every detail. "God! If you could just show me why....how.....when....where..."

Sometimes my daughter comes to me and wants to know the why in everything and all I want as a father is just having her there with me. I don't look down to her for all the questions and worry about this or that. I love her for who she is right in that moment. But I would be a lair to say I don't also love her for who I see she is going to become. With time she will gain a calmness, focus, and passion for things ahead of her. An ability to question when nessacary, but also a maturity to know when to just sit and enjoy being with me.

My prayer for us is that God will show us a new level of questioning and desiring His plans, but also the ability to say,"I don't understand, but God has this planned for our prosperity!" The ability to sit still before Him and just enjoy His sweet presence as we worship Him. That through patience AND persistence, we will find in His Presence that sweet anointing that will break the yolk.

Amplified says it best:

"Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me [ceased from fretting]."

It's time God weans us that we would put away the foolish, put down the milk, and eat meat to be filled with His thoughts, heart, and Word!