Podcast
Psalm 131
The Salt Company - Ames
Speaker: Graham Spruill
December 12, 2024 · 26 min
Summary
Psalm 131 diagnoses the noisy, anxious soul as rooted in pride of heart, haughty eyes, and overcommitment, then prescribes rest through humility and trust in God. The cure mirrors a weaned child's dependency on its mother—a posture David modeled and Jesus embodied at Christmas, inviting listeners to cease striving and sleep as an act of faith.
Highlights
We have this noisy soul that keeps us up at night because at our core, even if we don't recognize it, the temptation is to prop ourselves up as though we're God in our comparisons, in our commitments, in our calendars.
Sleep is our body's natural intuitive way to accept the gift that he's the one who runs the stars and the heavens and the cosmos and we don't have to.
David is showing us that God values not power and self-sufficiency but weakness and dependency on my God.