As a Weaned Child

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. (Psa 131:2)

In the light of the world’s economy spiraling down, it is a good time for us to check where our heart is. Jesus spoke very plainly in Matt 6:19-21 where to lay up our treasure and He warns us about the dwelling place of our heart. Interesting that He put it this way, ‘where our treasure is, that is where our heart will be also’, indicating that our heart can leave its rightful place.

For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: (Php 1:23)

Luther said ‘What a man loves, that is his God’. The Apostle Paul knew where his heart is. He again said the same thing earlier in 2 Cor 5:8 to be present with the Lord. It is then possible to attain to this attitude that our citizenship or being is heavenly and this life that we live is a faithful race we are running looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith (Heb 12:1,2). May we have the revelation as our spiritual forefathers’ had, desiring ‘a better country, that is, an heavenly’ (Heb 11:16).

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. (Psa 84:10)

The Psalmist echoed the same thing as Paul. Let us not deceive ourselves, can we sincere say that to be in His Presence we have experienced fullness of joy (Psa 16:11), unless we have not been there ourselves but only read or heard about such a thing. This is a test if we have been truly been weaned from carnality and living the Kingdom of God. David declared that he is as a weaned child. David goes to say that a weaned child is one that is knows how to behave and is quieted, two characteristics of being weaned.

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. (Rom 6:15)

We will know that we have been weaned of the world and carnality if we know how to behave because our minds are no longer controlled by the flesh but by the Spirit of God (Rom 8:4) and this Spirit led life is evident in the fruit unto holiness (Rom 6:22). Are we still struggling with moral misbehaviors or at least started on the journey of yielding ourselves to God that He might work in us according to His good pleasure (Php 2:12)? Remember it is God's work to save us and translate us into the Kingdom of the Son of His love, ours is just having faith that He will do so.

The second thing about the weaned child is there is a quieting of the spirit for ‘to be spiritually minded is life and peace’. In Matt 24 Jesus warns us that economic downturn is the least of our concerns. Worrying won't add a single hour to our life. There will be pestilences, political upheaval and natural disasters unheard of. Worst of all is deception, because Rev 20:10 warns us that the deceived will be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone. Therefore consider the latter of greater importance that losing things.

Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. (Matt 24:32-34)

In May 14, 1948 Israel became a nation. We have been reminded recently at our small community of believers that we are the generation that have witnessed of the budding of the fig tree (the Israeli nation) and we are the generation that will live through the fulfillment of all Jesus said in Matt 24. May we not be ignorant of the second coming of the Lord and may we be found with established hearts that are blameless before God (1 Thess 3:13).

Let us then be encouraged not to be lofty in our earthly pursuits, neither aiming for anything high or great, but allowing God to wean us of carnality. As it is the mother who weans the child, so God will wean us in order that we will be prepared for the Day of Jesus Christ, therefore yield ourselves totally to Him for His working in our lives.