“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 calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.” (Ps. 131:1,2)
What did David mean here, “like a weaned child with its mother”? Satisfied. Content. Secure. Comforted.
This metaphor is intriguing, and all the more so when we realize that David was no milktoast. He was a rough man in a rough world. The conquering king of a nation with expanding borders. Yet even such a man could not find real contentment, real security in externals. He found them in a personal relationship with the true and living God.
Still true today.
