This week I heard the phrase, “Baby, it’s COVID out there”. I have good friends and family involved in this battle. How do you stay calm when life is so uncertain?
The usual calm commentators of reason are not being heard. Instead, the megaphones have been given to voices spewing fear and uncertainty birthed in the bowels of Gehenna. Of these Peter would say: “And in their greed they will exploit you with false words” (2 Pt.2:3a).
But allow God’s servant David to speak to your heart. He is ascending the mountain to the Temple of God as he pens these words:
Psalm 131 (ESV) — A Song of Ascents. Of David. 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; like a weaned child is my soul within me. 3 O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore.
First, notice his focus is away from pride and instead towards humility. Secondly, he is no longer that selfish child with an insatiable appetite. And, finally, he leaves us focused on hope in the Lord from now and into eternity.
