Psalm 131:1-3
“1 O Lord, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. 2 But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me. 3 O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time on and forevermore.”
Trouble, hardship, and suffering are part of life and cannot be avoided. We try, but somehow these things always find us. Yet, in the midst of these things, God asks us to have a calm and quieted soul.
If we try to find calm and quiet for our soul outside of God we will never find them. Only God’s Holy Spirit can provide them. He gives them to us through our faith, and it is only our regular practice of the spiritual disciplines that enables us to sustain a calm and quiet soul.
If we consistently practice the disciplines of prayer, study of scripture, worship, service, fellowship, solitude and silence we will possess a calm and quiet spirit.
God gives us this gift so that we may be the calm in the chaos, the quiet in the swirl offering the world a better way.
“I have said this to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution. But take courage; I have conquered the world!” (John 16:33)
May the love of Christ be with you,
Rev. Eric Lanier (Retired)
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