Wednesday, 6 July 2016

Psalm 131 Not too proud

Psalm 131

This is another pilgrimage psalm by David 

Have you ever tried to solve the problems of the world? I usually think about it when I get some beer inside me!!

I have to remember sometimes that some problems are beyond my means to solve!

This Psalm puts me in mind of trying to sort out the big problems that I don't have a hope of solving!

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 quietened myself, like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child I am content.

Israel put your hope in the LORD, both now and for evermore.

One thing I will say is that there some things that I will never understand, however that is no excuse to not try and understand!

Isaac Newton (one of the greatest minds in history) once said
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

There is no shame in admitting that there are things one doesn't know - but there is no excuse for not caring enough to at least try and understand.

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