“You Are Trying Too Hard”
“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.”
How many times have you spent recently trying to figure things out. Why is all this stuff happening? What is the solution? Am I doing enough?
The human mind is an amazing creation of God. The average person fails to fully unlock it’s potential.
Yes, we are human. Our minds don’t know everything.
That can be frustrating sometimes, when we try and try to figure something out.
The psalmist realizes he doesn’t know everything.
He has the right attitude.
His heart is not “lifted up.”
The psalmist has the right perspective about himself.
“My eyes are not raised too high.”
A blogger who calls himself “Pastor Peter” explains it this way:
“My eyes are not raised too high. In other words, I do not live with grand illusions about me or grand expectations of me, what I can do, or my life. It is not that we have low expectations but that we know ourselves, we know the world, and, most of all, we know Christ.”
The proper perspective the psalmist has leads him to “not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.”
He realizes that he won’t understand everything.
So, we become comfortable in our own skin, knowing our limitations, and realizing that we can’t figure everything out, we rest in Him. God is all knowing!
“But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.”
Psalm 131:2
If you are troubled today, and you can’t figure things out. Bring God your burdens, rest in Him, and listen for His still small voice.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and DO NOT LEAN TO YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
Proverbs 3:5-6
