[Pastor Ralph]

Q1. According to Psalm 131, just how does David quiet his inner person before the Lord? What are the elements mentioned in this psalm?

[Tabatha]

Q1. According to Psalm 131, just how does David quiet his inner person before the Lord? What are the elements mentioned in this psalm?

Pride results from overvaluing ourselves and undervaluing others.It leads to restlessness because it makes us dissatisfied with what we have and concerned about what everyone else is doing. It keeps us always hungering for more attention and adoration. By contrast , HUMILITY puts others first and allows us to be content with God's leading in our lives.

Such contentment gives us security so that we no longer have to prove ourselves to others . Let Humility and trust affect your perspective and give you the strength an freedom to serve God and others. AMEN!

[KelvinJC]

Q1. According to Psalm 131, just how does David quiet his inner person before the Lord? What are the elements mentioned in this psalm?

1) David quiet his inner person before the Lord by first having an attitude of humility and have a quiet heart. We need to take our pride and humble ourself before we can have a peaceful heart. After having the heart stilled and quietted my soul, we will not have the attitue of having the control of everything. We need to allow ourself to know that God is in control and over us.

2) The elemens mentioned in this psalm is having humility and trust, have stilled and quiet soul, and having trust in the Lord by having a humble heart first.

[Rosemary NoVA]

Q1. According to Psalm 131, just how does David quiet his inner person before the Lord? What are the elements mentioned in this psalm?

The first verse tells of what the psalmist is not -- proud, nor haughty. (I love the sound of the word ' haughty' because just saying it I instantly see the coldness of the word "huffed" out of the mouth and the tilt of the head allowing the eyes to skate derisively down the nose.) Next, the psalmist seems to be saying that he doesn't distract himself with issues outside of his purview.

So it seems he is neither looking down upon anyone or any situation, nor is he looking beyond his own horizon. His eyes are focused and clear "here and now". Therefor, he is like a weaned child -- close to his mother, anxious for nothing and trusting he is loved, watched over and cared for.

[KelvinJC]

Q1. According to Psalm 131, just how does David quiet his inner person before the Lord? What are the elements mentioned in this psalm?

1). David quiet his inner person before the Lord with an attitude of humility. He stilled and quieted rested with God like a weaned child enjoying the intimacy of breast feeding. Humility puts others first and allows us to be content with God's leading in our lives.

2). The elements mentioned in this psalm was allowing humility and trust to do God`s perspective way so that we will have the strength to serve God and others with love and gratitude.

[nancychua]

1). David quiet his inner person before the Lord with an attitude of humility. He stilled and quieted rested with God like a weaned child enjoying the intimacy of breast feeding. Humility puts others first and allows us to be content with God's leading in our lives.

2). The elements mentioned in this psalm was allowing humility and trust to do God`s perspective way so that we will have the strength to serve God and others with love and gratitude.

[charisbarak]

David quiets his inner being by being humble, not proud & seeming to have all the answers to big problems. He stilled & quieted his heart, by resting in God, being content where he was.

The elements were stillness & quiet, leaving all matters in the hand of his God.

[Roxanne]

Q1. According to Psalm 131, just how does David quiet his inner person before the Lord? What are the elements mentioned in this psalm?

WE NEED TO HUMBLE OURSELVES TO THE LORD ..THAT WAS WHAT DAVID WAS DOING.

BE STILL AND LET ME KNOW IAM GOD..AND BE QUIET AND WAIT ON ME

[Roxanne]

Q1. According to Psalm 131, just how does David quiet his inner person before the Lord? What are the elements mentioned in this psalm?

HE HUMBLES HIMSELF TO THE LORD ..LIKE WE SHOULD DO.

HE WANTS US TO REST IN HIM AND NOT DO WORKS .....JUST GRACE PRAISE AND WORSHIP HIM.

[Stan]

Q1. According to Psalm 131, just how does David quiet his inner person before the Lord? What are the elements mentioned in this psalm?

By being still and quite in the presence of the Lord. the elements are stillness, quiteness and hope in the Lord.
Being still to me is while in prayer we wait and allow God to talk to us. We are waiting for the power of God to lead us in what He has planned for our lives. Being quite again to me is waiting for the Lord to speak to our hearts and the only wait we can hear Him is to be quite and listen to our hearts. Having hope in the Lord is faith know that He has the power to do all that He says He will and waiting for it to happen in His time, know to wait is patience and patience builds faith in God.

[Ms CJ]

Q1. According to Psalm 131, just how does David quiet his inner person before the Lord? What are the elements mentioned in this psalm?

According to Psalm 131, just how does David quiet his inner person before the Lord?
* He has stilled his soul before the Lord. He has become as a weaned child from his mother's breast.
* He has put his hope in the Lord.
* His crying has ceased
* His mind is at peace
* His will is surrendered
* His eyes are no longer graze upon the darkness, but they graze upon light of the horizon of the coming glory of the Lord.

What are the elements mentioned in this psalm?
* Humility
* A rest
* Trust
* Hope
* Love
* Future
These are the foundational elements that has been created in him through the events in his life. He has not only learned through trial and error, but through learning the personality of who his God is and how he as king sees the love of God for His people.

[JustJeff]

In Psalm 131 David stays within himself, accepting that he is but a mere babe before the Almighty. He counts himself as one who has learned to patiently wait upon the Lord, as he is certain that he will soon be "fed". He is exercising his faith.

[davidjjj]

Q1. According to Psalm 131, just how does David quiet his inner person before the Lord? What are the elements mentioned in this psalm?

It’s easy to have a restless mind, left to its own devices I find my mind/heart can race and think lofty thoughts that stir and unsettle. God said “the secret things belong to the LORD but the thing revealed belong to us” Deut 29:29, sometimes I have found while doing Theology that my mind has tried to figure out what cant be figured out, “by faith we understand…” the author of Hebrews declared (11:3), and there are matters that will drive us crazy if we don’t learn like the Psalmist to intentionally still our souls and rest. This kind of faith that understands is kin with humility, the pursuit of lofty knowledge is proud & haughty, as Paul said there is an esoteric knowledge that “puffs up”, we need to wean ourselves from trying to figure out “the secret thing that belong to the LORD” and be satisfied in the vastness of “what has been revealed to us” we don’t need to be like super spiro’s, or like Gnostics searching for secret knowledge etc, we must learn to not go “beyond what is written” (i.e. what is revealed in the Scripture) becoming speculative and lofty- like a lecturer once said to me- we need a mystery box in our Theology because God is bigger than we can grasp! Allowing for this, and choosing to sometimes stop in the pursuit makes provision for rest.

NB please understand I am not saying we shouldn’t be diligent in study! I am saying where there are mysteries (the antimony presented in Scripture when it teaches both, Divine sovereignty and human responsibility coexisting, the inner working of the Trinity, the dual nature of Christ as fully God and fully man at the same time, the Kenosis etc)

[Don W]

According to this Psalm, David quiets his inner person before the Lord by his attitude of humility and trust in the Lord; not being overly concerned with matters in life that are too great and wonderful for him to comprehend (but they are those that he would still worship and praise the Lord for them even if he didn’t understand them because they were too wonderful for him to understand—I would venture to include most of the things David said in Psalm 139 about the Lord forming him, searching his heart, and being with him no matter where he went would be included in this knowledge of his Lord God that was way beyond his (and our) understanding or comprehension); he was able to quiet his soul before the Lord as a weaned, matured child now quietly trusting his mother to feed him as we Christians quietly trust and wait for the Lord to feed us His Word and to do His will in our lives. I have never had any little children in this way but I can imagine that it must be quite a venture to take a child and to mature that child away from breast feeding to soft baby food, and then to regular baby food, etc. and in all that time, teaching the little child to depend upon his mother to feed him the proper food he needs. David could be picturing here our lives as we grow and mature from new-born babies in the Lord Jesus to gradually growing into Christians who wait and trust in the Lord for all of “our daily bread”. I was following a series of articles about a family who is faithful to the Lord in all that happened to them as their little 11-year old daughter lost her battle with cancer even though they and many others had been continually praying for her to receive a miracle in her life of the Lord’s healing. What was interesting in this series was the fact that at first, the family (and especially her dad)in their desperation demanded a miracle of healing from the Lord, but this was later gradually changed to their prayers that the Lord would grant a miracle if it be the Lord’s will to do so in her life. After she passed away, the family and many others said that indeed the Lord Jesus did grant them a miracle in that their daughter was completely healed and now in heavenly glory with the Lord, and that so many lives had been touched by Him in this happening to their little girl and being reported by the Seattle Times series: “Prayers for Gloria”. This, to me, is a good example of a family and many Christian supporters at first pretty desperate to pray for a miracle in Gloria’s healing from her cancer, but later, quieting down their souls to accept and trust in the Lord’s will that His will would be done in Gloria’s life as well as in theirs. I believe that this is an example in the life of the one David is describing here in this Psalm as they have their souls stilled and quieted before the Lord and wait/trust in Him to accomplish His will in their lives. When we put our hope and trust in the Lord both now and forevermore, then we, too, will see the Lord’s miracles of His salvation and work in our lives to be completed by Him as well, just as Gloria’s family and friends did in her life.

[Elwood C O'Dell]

David comes before the Lord with a humble spirit and the realization that there are some things he just cannot control. Things he must let go of and let God take care of. He comes with the realization that he doesn’t need to have the answer right away, but rather in God’s time. He comes with a “confident expectation and trust” that God will act in His time on David’s behalf. His hope and his trust are completely in the Lord and this quiets his inner most being.

[Spirit777]

Proverbs 16:18;
Pride goeth before destruction; And a haughty spirit before a fall.

Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide
the spoil with the proud.

Proverbs 29:23;
A man's pride shall bring him low: But honor shall uphold the
humble in Spirit.
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Psalm 131
Lord my heart it not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty.

David is saying that his heart is not lifted up. (As King Uzziah in II Chronicles 26:16)>But when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction; as he transgressed against the Lord his God.....
His heart is not exalted, lifted high by pride.

God's Word says that David was a man after God's own heart; not because he was so righteous, but mainly because David was a man of true repentance. Pride keeps a lot of people from being humble of lower not only to ask forgiveness from others, but also lower themselves to seek or ask godly repentance of God. In other words they think themselves more highly than they are so they are headed for a great fall.

David was saying he had not been lifted up with pride, and his eyes did not seek that upon which pride feeds.

Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

David did not attempt to dive into the secret of God's purposes, or into the sovereigh design of God.

(2). Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother.
Hebrews records this statement as some form of oath, a phrase of asserveration. What had David the Psalmist been weaned?;

(a). Self-sufficiency (. Self-will ©. Self-seeking, from creatures and from the things of this world not indeed as to thier use, but as to any dependence upon them for his happiness and portion.

(3).Let Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth and forever.

One who is weaned from self automatically thinks of others. Based on his own experience with the Lord, David exhorts all Israel to humble recognize God as their source of hope. Each one who names the names of Christ Jesus as Savior has that same source of hope.

[EuniceC]

David acknowledges that in order to really trust in the Lord, He needs to accept that he cannot understand everything done by God. When we start to look for logic in the things of God, we start to get haughty and proud, because we think we can analyse and understand everything that God does. But "who can understand the mind of God? Who can be His counselor" Is. 5: 14-19 and ff. Such people are already condemned, because the Lord hates a proud and haughty spirit.
David surrenders every inclination to know the mind of God and simply submits to him, and it is only in humility that he can do this. We must have that humility of heart to surrender to God, only then will we find true peace.
Stillness and quietness,these are what we need in the world today, when things happen which we cannot understand.

[Loisb]

Q1. According to Psalm 131, just how does David quiet his inner person before the Lord? What are the elements mentioned in this psalm?

1. David quiets his inner person by being humble, not being proud, not worrying about things he doesn't understand, quiets his soul and puts all his trust the the Lord. He is determined to put all his hope in the Lord for as long as he lives.

2. Some of the elements in this psalm are rest, humility, hope and trust.

[Jen]

David was content to be what God wanted him to be. He didn't seek popularity or fame but he sought after God.
Elements would include humility, trust, and the ability to discern.

God Bless!!
Jen
Numbers 6:24-26

[Patricia A]

Q1. According to Psalm 131, just how does David quiet his inner person before the Lord?
David quiets his inner person by resting in the Lord. This means being humble and not being concerned with knowing everything. There are some things beyond our understanding and we turn our concern about them over to the Lord.



What are the elements mentioned in this psalm?
Humility, trust, hope, trusting the Lord in those areas which are beyond our understanding