1 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty:
neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself,
as a child that is weaned of his mother:
my soul is even as a weaned child.
3 Let Israel hope in the Lord
from henceforth and for ever.
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Comments by Joan Boney
When I read verse 2, I thought of how a baby grows to point he is "weaned" and can eat solid food and even strong food.
Hebrews 5 ... 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness:for he is a babe. 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
As we grow in God by doing the word of God, "by reason of use", we are exercised to discern both good and evil and we can take strong meat of the Word.
Several years ago, I had the following dream. I was in a room where a long row of baby bassinets were placed. I walked down the row and looked into each of the bassinets. The babies were horribly deformed. At the end of the row stood my favorite aunt (no longer living). She was fully grown but on her face were terrible blemishes and big spots. I knew God was showing me people in the church who never grow up and remain babies and they become very deformed because of the bad food in the church groups. (also you remain babies if you fail to eat the food and digest it, doing the word in a proper way) And this aunt did grow to maturity but she knew things were wrong in her church group but she stayed there anyway, thus she had the spots and blemishes on her.
James 1 ... 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Also we must handle the word of God correctly ... The Lord's supper is eating and drinking the Word of God. The Lord's supper is not eating and drinking crackers/grape juice as they do at many churches. Crackers/grape juice have no power in the church. But eating and drinking the word of God correctly is great power. The Word of God is the flesh of Jesus and the blood of Jesus and HE (the Word) is bread for the church. This is the Lord's supper.
I Cor. 11 ... 23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat:this is my body, which is broken for you:this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying,
This cup is the new testament in my blood:this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread (the Word of God), and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself (by the Word of God), and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup (examining himself by the Word of God as he reads and hears the Word).
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep (die). 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
You cannot judge yourselves by crackers and grape juice. Be reasonable! You judge yourselves by that Word you hear from God and the handling of that Word properly in your life is eating and drinking the Lords supper.
To fail to properly handle that Word you hear from God would put yourself into a terrible position. For this reason, many are weak and sickly among you, and many die.
It is a very serious matter to deal with scripture. You can "bring damnation" to yourself by handling it wrongly, failing to apply scripture in a proper way.
Your soul might be saved but you live in "damnation" on this earth ... being around people who grieve you constantly when you are with them yet seeking to be with them is just one example of "damning yourself".
To free ourselves, we follow that one word given us that day and eventually we step into a way of life, one scripture at a time, as we properly do that scripture and subsequent scriptures. To read without properly doing it causes weakness, sickness, and even death.
So we must be very careful as we handle the Word of God. It cannot be done lightly.
And beware of praying if you don't plan to do as God says ... I know examples of people who foolishly pray, asking God what to do and then they don't like the instruction given by the Holy Spirit so they go the way they wanted to go in the first place. It would be better not to ask God at all than to ask and go in your own way opposite to what you hear to do. This would be to turn your back on God and walk away from God. Awful!
We must handle the Word of God properly.
Proverbs 1 ...
God says ...
23 Turn you at MY reproof:
behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you,
I will make known MY words unto you.
24 Because I have called, and ye refused;
I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But ye have set at nought all MY counsel,
and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your fear cometh;
27 When your fear cometh as desolation,
and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind;
when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer;
they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge,
and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
30 They would none of MY counsel:
they despised all MY reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,
and be filled with their own devices.
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them,
and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkeneth unto ME shall dwell safely,
and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
It is a very serious matter to read Bible. It is a serious matter when we pray. The way we handle the Word of God is critical to us, to our well being on this earth.
The Word of God comes through reading Bible, through thoughts given by the Holy Spirit, by dreams, by counsel of humans who are guided by God. Anything given by God is the Word of God. It doesn't matter how it comes.
Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Man also condemns himself on this earth if he handles that word incorrectly.
I Cor. 3 ... But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest:for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss:but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.