Title: Child-Like Faith/ Topic: Trusting God

Today’s Reading: Ezra 9; Ezra 10; Psalm 131; Luke 21

Scripture: Psalm 131:1-3
1 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.
2 But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
3 O Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore.

Observation: In the New Testament we are told that we cannot come to God unless we do so like a child. Here David says he has stilled and quieted his soul like a "weaned child". What are the characteristics of a weaned child? First, they are through the "baby stage"; they feed themselves and can make choices to obey mom or disobey. But they are still dependent on mom. David says his heart is not proud; he doesn't try to figure everything out. That is another child-like characteristic. He is depending on God to teach him and affirming that his love for God is like that of a young child resing in his mother's arms. What a beautiful picture to teach us how we should be relating ot God.

Application: I don't need to figure everything out. I need to come to Papa God and rest in his love and let him care for me. I need to be teachable, as a young child is.

Prayer: Father, I want to make the choice to do as David did. He recognized it was a choice of his to sit quietly with you and receive instruction or not. He was not an infant who had no decision-making ability and had to simply let his caregivers do what they wanted to him. I know I am in that same position. Teach me to quiet my soul like a weaned child so that I may receive everything you have to give to me.
This I pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.