The High Calling of God

Psalms 131 Verses 2, 3 “Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel, hope in the Lord, from this time forth and forever." We have been learning how to have that perfect peace, that peace that passes our need to understand ( Phil. 4: 6-7 ). Continuing on in this short but powerful Psalm. The word- calmed —in the KJV= “behaved". In the original it means “to adjust,counterbalance". Quieted means to “to be dumb, to perish, to stop, cease, hold peace, rest, be silent, stand (be) still". WE need to learn to ADJUST our behavior! We need to yield our souls to God and His workings in our lives as well as the lives of others. Like a  "weaned child" who no longer fusses after mother’s milk, no longer stressed out that you’re not going to get what you think you need or want- but calm, reassured, trusting. You have seen those Christians- throwing temper tantrums because

Psalms 131 Recently this little Psalm was brought to my attention. I say "little" but this Psalm packs a giant punch right in the middle of all the anxiousness and stress that is going on around us in the world today- and especially at this time of year. It only has three verses but I am going to break this up into two parts. Verse 1: "Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I concern myself with great matters, nor with things too profound for me."   NKJV Wow! If we could just get that verse into our spirit and live by it, we would alleviate a lot of stress in our lives. We should not presume we are anything in God- high, exalted, lifted up and not compare ourselves with others. That is where a lot of unrest comes in. We tend to constantly compare ourselves with others. We even do it subconsciously! We need to know what God wants us to do- do it- and leave the others to God. This will chase away most of the stress, unrest and questi

Philippians 4:6-7  "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." Especially at this season there is a lot of talk about PEACE- the PEACE of God; Jesus Christ in the Son of PEACE; PEACE, goodwill to all men. We talk a lot about it but do we really know what it is like to experience it. How many of you like to put puzzles together? Don’t you just hate it when you get to the end and find out you have one or several pieces missing? It makes the entire puzzle worthless. We learned we can’t put puzzles together on our table and leave them there without covering them up when we weren’t working on it. We found out that Ginger, our Golden Retriever would go along the edge of the table and just swipe off entire sections of the puzzle and eat them. It was nothing to find out that an enti