Opening Prayer: O Lord, help me to never think too much of myself, or to try and get others to think too much of me. Help me to never see myself as indispensable to what you are doing in this world, for when I start seeing myself that way it only shows that it has become more about me than about you. Wean me from need, O Lord, and free me to love. Help me to put my hope fully in you, and not in myself. Amen.
Scripture: Psalm 131:1-3
Journal: What do you need to let go of these days? What is standing in the way of you having a stilled and quieted soul? Will you let go of it?
Reflection: “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. But I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore.” (Psalm 131:1-3)
When we are finally willing
and able to let go of our own self-importance, our sense of indispensability,
and or need to be needed, only then will we have the courage and the strength to
put our plans and agendas aside and give God the space and the time to do
whatever he wants to do. Life becomes
about him and not about us.
Only when we are weaned from
need will we be truly able to love, trusting fully in God’s unfailing love and
power and care. Only when we are finally
able to be stilled and quieted, “like a weaned child with its mother,” is our
hope really in the Lord and not in ourselves.
Thus, a stilled and quieted soul is the fruit of truly open hands.
Pray
Closing Prayer: O Lord, help me to open my hands completely to you. Help me to let go of anything and everything that keeps me from being fully and completely yours.
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