{"id":85,"date":"2009-11-26T09:20:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T12:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=85"},"modified":"2009-11-26T09:21:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T12:21:57","slug":"a-rough-man-in-a-rough-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"A rough man in a rough world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>, 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.\u00a0 But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.&#8221; (Ps. 131:1,2)<\/p>\n<p>What did David mean here, &#8220;like a weaned child with its mother&#8221;?\u00a0 Satisfied.\u00a0 Content.\u00a0 Secure.\u00a0 Comforted.<\/p>\n<p>This metaphor is intriguing, and all the more so when we realize that David was no milktoast.\u00a0 He was a rough man in a rough world.\u00a0 The conquering king of a nation\u00a0with expanding borders.\u00a0\u00a0Yet even such a man could not\u00a0find real contentment, real security in externals.\u00a0 He found them in a personal\u00a0relationship with the\u00a0true and living God.<\/p>\n<p>Still true today.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;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.\u00a0 But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.&#8221; (Ps. 131:1,2) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=85\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A rough man in a rough world&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}