A child embraces his mother out of a desire for love, closeness, and companionship…how much more should we embrace God with that same desire.
Our human desires are usually full of pride, arrogance and self-gain…but I just want to calm and quiet my soul and cling to the words of Psalm 131 today:
“My heart is not proud, Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. But I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content. Israel, put your hope in the Lord both now and forevermore.”
Here lately it seems like God keeps speaking the words “small” and “short” into my spirit, so I have been looking through the scriptures for short psalms, shorter books of the Bible and in the natural, just the small things…like morning hugs and prayer with my teenager. Sometimes we need to crawl in God’s lap, lay our head on his chest and quietly rest in His Presence. That may seem like a “small thing” in this natural world, but it has so much supernatural power to strengthen our faith and closeness to our Heavenly Father.