Don’t Worry, Be Holy - Part 2: Birds and Barns

Well, it's good to be back among you this morning as we last week took one step closer with our brother Greg. Taking us further into the book of Jonah now. We're I believe a chapter away and perhaps hope to finish before years end and I believe he's now Preaching again at the the little church in Worcester.

So as you think of him perhaps even this morning pray for the Lord to give him grace and unction. We are now picking up where we left off in Matthew 6. Continuing on to the Sermon on the Mount and we're nearing the end of chapter 6.

Anxiety, Righteousness, and the Call to Seek the Kingdom

Now two weeks ago. I began what will be four parts. At least up to verse 33 and then there'll be another four parts just on verses 33 to 34 and so in verses 25 through 32, we have this large theme that's driving issue of Anxiety and Jesus says.

Therefore I say to you do not worry. So from verses 25 through 32 We're looking at this matter of why we should not worry and that all drives toward verse 33 which in my mind is is perhaps the most significant aspect of Chapter 6 and in all the ways that it ties into chapter 5 and I look forward to showing that when we get there.

But verse 33 essentially says be holy. Seek the kingdom of God first and its righteousness. Don't worry. Be holy. That's the Left leg and right leg of the end of chapter 6. Don't worry, but be holy. So two weeks ago we began with verse 25.

Therefore I say to you do not worry about your life. What you will eat what you will drink nor about your body. What you'll put on is not life more than food and the body more than clothing. And so Jesus wants his followers as we know from chapter 5 to be salt and light to the world living with a Righteousness that will be visible to men so that they may glorify God.

But he says at the beginning of chapter 6 Don't let your righteousness be lived in such a way that you're seeking that kind of attention for your own gain so on the one hand chapter 5 Live a righteous life that you might be liked that that it might be visible before men and they can glorify your father in heaven.

But then don't do it in such a way that yourself righteous that you're parading around a sort of hypocritical and smug righteousness. Which is no righteousness at all. Jesus wants his followers to be salt and light so that his father in heaven will be glorified and this God glorifying Righteousness this discipled life of faith cannot endure with anxiety and worry.

That's how we moved from chapter 5 through chapter 6 and all the ways that we've seen false righteousness. Jesus says when you come to true righteousness know that true righteousness cannot coexist for long.

With anxiety and worry the Lord desires us to be free from anxiety. Now let me say again here if our reason For wanting to be free from anxiety is so that we can simply get on with a tremble free life.

So that we can carry on with what is in honesty a self-centered way of life. Then we will never experience the peace and the joy that comes with the kingdom of God. The kinds of blessings that belong to knowing Jesus and following in his footsteps.

That kind of peace and that kind of joy certainly cannot coexist with anxiety and worry. But your goal should not be to get away from anxiety and worry. Your goal should be to get close to Jesus. To be able to commune with him and walk in his ways.

Right.

So if your goal is to be free from anxiety Just so you can carry on in your own direction. You can follow through on your own ambitions and you're going to fall far short. There are people that find all sorts of strategies and coping mechanisms and Medications to help them in this way, but for the Christian We're not seeking to be free from anxiety as much as we're seeking to be close to Jesus.

Now another thing we established two weeks ago. Perhaps more than anything else our anxieties our worries reveal what drives us. Why it's important to pay attention to what your mind is running through.

As I remember DA Carson some years ago in a message saying what do you think about when you're not thinking about anything? You know have anything specific that's calling for your attention and your mind shifts into neutral gear.

What do you think about? What do you think about when you're not thinking about anything. What you think about what you fret about what you're worrying about. Will be a helpful window into the things that are driving you into the things that you value most.

For better or for worse. We are most anxious about the things that we most value. This is a point we established two weeks ago. We considered the parable also of the sower in Luke 8 and Jesus explains the seed which fell among the thorns.

Represents those who heard the gospel. But as they went on their way, they the beautiful seed that should have been this fruitful tree was suffocated choked out with worry and Riches and pleasures in life and it could bear no fruit.

So that's the other side of this teaching. Jesus says do not worry about your life. Don't worry about what you're going to eat what you're going to wear. Those are the immediate necessary things that God knows you need.

You shouldn't even worry about the immediate necessary things if that's true. How much less should you be worried about lesser things? Things that aren't immediate daily needs if you don't have to worry about your daily needs.

How much less should you be worried? Should you be occupied with the lesser needs with the needs that are more your own ambitions and goals? The other side of that teaching is simply this the gospel that seeks to bear fruit in your life may be suffocated by such worry.

It may be suffocated by the ambition for riches or pleasures in life. It may be that as a Christian you received good seed you heard the gospel. But as you've gone on your way, it has not borne fruit in your life because it's been suffocated by anxiety.

You see how significant this teaching is. So then everywhere as we heard even two weeks ago, even this morning during the prayer time everywhere we turn We find a voice beckoning us to be anxious for everything.

Scripture stands before us demanding that we be anxious for nothing. And because God has commanded this we can be assured that our life of faith and our growth in faith are designed to make us less and less Anxious.

God does this by taking us by the hand into valleys and through hilltops? Into new seasons of trials and new pathways of blessings. All of this is part of God's faithful providence in our lives every aspect of both blessing and trial.

Perfectly designed to strengthen our trust in him to deepen our resolve. To enlighten our hope to build and reinforce our trust in our God. This is how God makes us less and less and less Anxious as we'll see toward the end this morning being less and less and less Anxious looks like being more and more and more content and that's where we'll be going next week to really unpack what it means to be content and Particularly, what are the two?

I think the two foremost sources of contentment the two the twin streams of Contentment in the Christians life. That's what we'll look at next week. But this morning We're looking at the second part of this series and we're looking at verses 26 and 27 and We're looking at the birds.

According to verse 26 My goal this morning is simply to make you all bird watchers by the end of the morning. I Don't do this often but just out of curiosity by show of hand is Anyone whether an amateur or a veteran is anyone here a bird watcher?

Somehow I thought it would be the Brooks very good Ryan. I'm not surprised at all Over here as well. Okay there there is a Brilliance to that kind of hobby and you could say it's perhaps one of the few biblical hobbies in existence.

This is a thoroughly biblical hobby. Because when you go about bird watching you're actually obeying the command of Matthew 6 26 and this is an imperative command.

Look at the birds.

When when someone berates you and says, you know, there's so much to do. Will you stop gazing through those binoculars and looking at the yellow warbler and just say hey, I'm just following Jesus. Okay I'm just obeying my Lord.

He has commanded me to look at the birds. He gives other commands as well to be diligent, but you get the point. This is a command. This whole idea of looking at the birds is absolutely vital. Verse 26 and 27 corresponds to verse 25.

Where we're going next week will correspond to verse 25 as well in a different way. So here the first part of verse 25. Jesus says don't worry about what you're going to eat or drink. And then he gives this illustration for about that worry about eating and drinking.

He says look at how the birds eat and drink. They don't labor. They don't store in barns and yet they eat and they drink and they're satisfied. And then next week as we'll see Jesus had said in verse 25 Don't worry about what you'll wear about how you're going to dress your body and he says look at the grass of the field.

Look at the lilies. Look in other words, look at how they're clothed. And so you see these illustrations corresponding to verse 25. So here we're looking at the birds of the air and it's tied to verse 25 this worry about what we'll eat.

What will provide for ourselves how we're going to get by get through and the first thing we see in verse 26 is the first word.

Look.

Jesus says look at the birds of the air for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? The first thing we read is the first word.

Look this is a command. Look. Jesus desires his disciples to notice God's wondrous design in Providential care for the world around them. Look around. Look around you. By the way, this is the same thing that the Lord does to Job.

If ever there was a man bound down to the grave with anxiety with worry, it would have been Job. But God rebukes Job beginning in chapter 38 and he and he rebukes Job in such a way that essentially he's saying hey Job.

Look.

Look around you. Get some perspective about your life. Get some proportion about who you are in the midst of the creation that I've made and therefore who I am in relation to you. So this leans into the significance of of God as our creator this leans into Creation theology and certainly it leans into God's revelation through the created order in times past.

We've looked at Psalm 19. Psalm 19, of course this this beautiful picture of how God reveals himself first through what he has made. Second through his word and that unique and special revelation of his word where he in a unique way makes his will known.

But who he is and what he's like is established as clear as is as if he spoke it and he's speaking it through All that he has made and that's what Psalm 19 holds out. Essentially. It's saying look around you.

Listen to what is being told to you. Understand the word that is written on tree bark and in ant colonies and by the swaying willows. Look at what God has made. Look around you. Reflect on that infer from that who you are and who God is.

What you're like and what God is like. You think of the great hymn he speaks to me everywhere. Through the rustling grass. I hear him pass. He is constantly speaking to us. We are hardly hardly noticing him.

He is constantly speaking to us if we had ears to ear here and eyes to see. We would be able to understand exactly what Jesus is getting at here. Look.

Look notice.

Pause Reflect.

I'm just as guilty as anyone but. Isn't it isn't it rather sad to see Everyone staring with the device now. Four inches in front of their face. I mean we were ignorant beforehand. How much more so since 2004.

Absolutely engulfed.

By a two and a half inch screen. We're just not able to look. We're not able to hear we don't notice we don't reflect. I was listening this morning to a beautiful song just because of this passage or Rafe Vaughn Williams the lark ascending.

Incredible composition you get the idea of what he's reflecting upon as it as it builds. You ever walked through a meadow and had a lark fly overhead. Bursting in song that's what he's trying to capture some of the great 20th century composers in the same way.

They developed a whole musical vocabulary out of birdsong. Mahler very famously using this in several compositions. Olivier Messiaen, he he had a whole vocabulary of Notes based on certain wildlife and we'd employ that in his compositions.

And he was a he was a devout man. He was reflecting on the songs that God had surrounded and filled the world with and As a composer he was he was sensitive to that and he was right he was trying to adorn and Recreate the beauty that God had composed.

He speaks to me everywhere. It's not just because of smartphones. It's not just because of the anxieties of the modern day that we're not able to look and to reflect. It's partly because of the noetic effects of the fall.

In other words are our attention our affection our minds our intellect have been woefully damaged as a result of sin. And we can understand from that that when Adam walked through the pristine Garden of Eden When his feet were pressed into the soil of paradise and he listened to birdsong and he noticed the animal life.

And he thought in reflection of God as a creator and and enjoy he he named the animals that he encountered. He would deduct and infer and reflect upon all that he experienced and he knew all that he needed to know about the character of God.

Jesus has to command us and teach us to do this in a way that Adam would have found it to be natural. When Adam looked up into the sky and saw the birds of the air He understood as Jesus Understands what that means for him what that means for his life what that means for his worship in his calling.

We have to be retaught reinstructed. Jesus has to teach his people look.

Pause reflect.

Observe consider ponder. And if you notice this you'll see it throughout the Psalms. You'll see again and again that God is doing this with the created world with the created realm in Proverbs. We're told look to the ant.

My parents tell me Callum is just like I am just. You know, we had to drag him past an ant colony.

He just wants to stop.

He doesn't want to observe he wants to exterminate. Slap all the ants to death. That's like what I was. Well Proverbs says don't don't kill him watch him and learn from them. Look to the grasshopper. Observe the cattle notice the sheep.

God is constantly turning his people to say look at the world around you look at what I have made and reflect on that. Consider and observe and Jesus Jesus own ministry. We get the sense that he was always looking around him.

How many of his parables draw in life experience and and things from the natural world? Almost every metaphor draws upon some aspect of of nature or lived experience social dynamics. He was always looking when he thought about his life.

He could say negatively on the one hand. Listen, the birds of the air have nests foxes have holes. The Son of Man doesn't have anywhere to lay his head or he could think positively as we have here in Matthew 6.

You don't have to worry about what you're gonna eat. Don't you notice that the birds are always fed. Jesus in the same way calls on us to reflect on life at the widest dimensions. After the fall our intellect was woefully damaged.

We're no longer able to reflect upon and notice and glorify God as creator. But rather we become distracted. We become concerned we become worried. You read the account of the fall and of course people are driven toward cities and music and technology.

Essentially, it's a result of the fall that a lot of what comprises our modern life today begins. You have essentially arts and technology city walls are architectural management agriculture and in all of the ways that that has blessed and benefited mankind in all the ways that that is the Intentional act of exercising dominion over the face of the earth.

You also get the sense that really it's just worry and fear that is driving these things. Mankind is vulnerable. Now there's famine. So we have to build great barns now. There's violence. So we have to build strong walls and thick gates.

Now there's vulnerability. Now there's need for weapons and technology now there's sorrow and despair. So we have to to build wineries and vineyards and what we have to create music and other forms of amusement.

In many ways these become very sophisticated forms of distraction driven by fears and concerns. Driven by needs as a result of the fall even though these are genuine needs. Adam and Eve Had no need to be concerned or anxious in these ways.

They would not need to dwell in a walled city. They didn't even need clothing until the fall. So that kind of distraction the things that drive our lives if we're being honest. Most of our lives are driven by either fears or genuine needs.

Just just pause and consider that. Most of what you do day by day is driven by either fear or genuine need. Fear of what will happen if you don't follow through on something. Fear of what will happen if you you aren't seen in a certain Genuine needs needs really the other side of that coin.

And in many ways as Jesus will go on to say your father knows what you genuinely need. But you can do without the fear and rather than being driven by fear even driven by genuine need. You should be driven by the desire for the kingdom of God and its righteousness because the distraction.

The fear the anxiety will prevent you from being able to think deeply about your life. To be able to actually perform the desire of God for your life. In short you won't even be able to look. You'll be so distracted so gripped you won't look and Jesus says here look.

Your life is more than food. Your body is more than clothes. You need to be able to see something that you can't see beyond those immediate needs. You need to live beyond an immediate impulse. You need to be driven by more than an immediate fear.

Look around you. That's the command of verse 26. Jesus wants to restore our attention and reflection to their rightful place. We could say to their pre-fallen pristine state so that we can understand our lives are right.

That's where we began two weeks ago in part one. What is your life? Need to understand your life rightly. You won't be able to understand your life if you don't know how to look if You can't see beyond your needs and your fears.

If you can't live toward and for and by something higher than your needs and your fears look around you. What is your life? What is this world? What is the shape and the flow of time and history and all the events within.

That's my plug for coming out tonight. For our church history study, what's your life? How do you situate yourself within the flow of successive events? What is it all for where did it all begin? Where is it all going?

Look.

Now Jesus says in verse 26 particularly He's answering again the question of verse 25. Don't worry about what you'll eat. He says look at the birds of the air. They don't sow they don't reap and they don't gather into barns, but your heavenly father feeds them.

I've seen birds nests. I've seen even some people build elaborate bird houses. I have never seen a bird barn. I've never seen a bird build a barn. I've never seen a bird drive a tractor. I've never seen a bird with a John Deere mechanism that scatters seed.

Birds of course have all sorts of work to do a point we'll come to in due time. But what they don't do is they don't sow and they don't reap and they don't build barns for all the excess crop. If we are hand-to-mouth in our expression they are winged to beak.

It's just as you need it and day by day the father feeds them. Think of how different this is and the foolish rich man that we saw two weeks ago. He finally has an excessive crop and he says I know what I need to do.

I need to build bigger barns and his soul was required that very night. His whole life was being built in this direction of more more more more food means more barns. More anxiety means more ambition.

More need means more fear. I need bigger barns. What's gonna happen to all this food if I don't have a bigger barn? Jesus says your fear was in the wrong place your desire your ambition had the wrong end.

He wanted to build back better. Those who worry in labor in this way Aren't looking at the birds of the air. They're not understanding the divine hand of a heavenly father who feeds his children who feeds all that he's created.

They're not inferring a right that. Their life is more than their stomach. And so they live for their belly you could say their belly is their God. The premier example of this is Esau. Esau's belly was his God.

Esau's God was not the covenant God of Abraham and Isaac. Esau's God was his stomach. He couldn't see beyond the impulse of hunger. And in fact, he had so ordered his life to be reactive to fears and needs to impulses of his flesh.

That he despised the inheritance the promises of God. No wonder God was not his God. The Covenant meant nothing. The promise that Abraham sojourned in meant nothing to him. It was as as penniless and pitiless as.

Soup.

So when Esau comes into Jacob and as twisted as Jacob is at least you could say by faith He's desiring the covenantal inheritance. He's the heel grasper he wants to inherit the promise. He goes to sinful lengths to obtain.

When Esau comes into him, he says Give me some of that red stew. Remember when we're in Genesis? Give me that red stuff. Get the idea that he's kind of rough around the edges. Jacob said give me your birthright.

And so Esau.

Ate.

Drank Arose went his way and we read in that narrative and so he despised his birthright because the birthright was the inheritance given by God and God was not his God. His stomach was his gown. Sin always does this in the Christians life?

Sin says I can meet that impulse. I can satisfy that fear. I can fulfill that need and I can do it now. But of course you'll only be hungry again. You'll never be truly fulfilled. That red stuff doesn't last very long and What you've lost in the midst of it is the inheritance is the promise now rather than straddling you simply despise The birthright.

No man can serve two masters. You'll either love the one and despise the other be loyal to the other one and hate the other. Essentially, that's what sin is doing here. I'm either going to love the promise of God and walk in that way I'm gonna love my stomach and react in the impulse of my flesh.

I can't love both. I can't have two masters and Esau ends up hating and despising the way of God. Because he's serving he's worshiping his belly. It's just like Adam in the garden. He's throwing away The inheritance he's throwing away paradise.

He's throwing away communion and blessedness with God. And it's not some red stuff for Adam. It's just fruit and it's as penniless and as pitiless as as the account of Esau, it's just. Why would you do it?

Why did Adam do that? He throws it all away for a flash of desire for a sensation of hunger. So that kind of distraction driven again by fear or by even genuine good need Prevents us from thinking very deeply about our lives our times our place our God.

We're not able to look and If we're in that place where we're not looking more often than not more likely than not. Our God is our belly if you can't look in other words. If you can't see the bigger picture.

If you can't see beyond the immediate need the immediate desire the immediate fear. If you can't live in a way that is ordered by what you're seeing and looking to beyond you're most likely Worshiping your belly.

And that's where we're dividing this passage. I'm trying to put before you the difference between a belly worshiper and a birdwatcher. The difference between someone who lives according to the moment lives according to the desire and according to the flesh right in front of them.

Versus someone who looks around looks upward looks toward the will of God the kingdom and its righteousness. The difference between a belly worshiper and a birdwatcher. Well a belly worshiper, of course is defined in a few places in the New Testament Romans 16.

I Urge you brethren. Paul says note those who cause divisions and offenses. Contrary to the doctrine which you learned avoid them. For these don't serve our Lord Jesus Christ. But their own belly these don't worship the Lord Jesus Christ, what do they worship their own belly?

These don't serve the Lord Jesus Christ, what are they serving their own stomach now, what does Paul mean by that? It's in the same thing that fleshly impulse that that carnal sense that that flash of desire because what causes divisions and offenses.

Isn't it? Isn't it the things that are often? Anxious.

Fears.

I've been slighted. I've been maligned now. My reputation is Going to be projected in a way that's unfair and people will think this of me when reality is like this and all of a sudden Worry and anxiety has brought about offense.

And what does offense lead to so often? Not the steps of reconciliation as it ought to but a root of bitterness which defiles many. What is the root of bitterness that's defiling many bring about division?

So what does Paul say? There's those who cause divisions and offenses and ultimately they're not serving the Lord. What are they serving their own stomach? You see how anxiety and worry and fear and need Have all brought about this destructive selfishness.

The self-will that's a belly worshiper.

So.

We're not talking about a glutton. We're not talking about someone who swings through Popeye's drive-thru one too many times. A Belly worshiper is much deeper than that. It's someone who who goes to any length.

To be able to satisfy or fulfill that carnal desire. That's a belly worshiper. I'll never deny myself whenever I have a need or a fear. I'll respond. I'll react. I'll do whatever I have to do Ally. I'll cheat.

I'll steal. I'll play the hypocrite. I'll do whatever I have to do to fulfill that fear that desire that need. In other words, my life is so gripped by anxiety and worry that I don't know how else to live.

I can't look or see anything beyond Galatians 5. Another example. The works of the flesh are evident adultery fornication uncleanness. Lewdness idolatry sorcery hatred contentions jealousies outbursts of wrath selfish ambition dissension heresies.

Envy murders drunkenness revelries and the like. Which I tell you beforehand. I've told you in times past those who make a practice of these things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Of course not. How could they?

If you're not.

If you're not seeking first the kingdom of God, how could you inherit the kingdom of God? And only those who are seeking first the kingdom of God or those who are going to be denying jealousies putting off contentions and hatreds.

Crucifying idolatries and uncleanness. That's what it means to seek first the kingdom of God. So later in a different letter in Philippians 3 Paul describes in the same terms these people as enemies of the cross of Christ.

Of course their enemies of the cross. You can only be a follower of the cross if you pick up the cross. And to pick up the cross is to deny. And live against all of these things a lot of people want to be a Christian.

Not many people want to be crucified. Jesus says if any man would follow me he must pick up his cross. In The ancient world if you're picking up a cross, you're only doing it for one reason. You're gonna be nailed to it.

So Jesus says you have to be willing to lose your life If you want to find it. You have to die to yourself and die to all these fleshly impulses in. Short if you want to worship the true and living God, you cannot worship your belly.

You cannot do it. Christians can get into ruts. Because in every other area of their life where it's lawful to do so. They've trained themselves to react to the slightest prompt the slightest desire. And let me just warn you if you can't deny the least things how will you deny the costly things?

If you can't run with men, how are you gonna run with chariots? And so the Christian life is a life marked by self-denial. The Christian life is not Being laid on a golden bed of ease. There's this old Cartoon that had these robots and I used to love watching it and one of my favorite robots was I think it was called like he didn't heat in a spot or something like that and.

It was a robot.

It was this golden robot on this bed and it had robotic arms that would put grapes in front of its mouth and. And of course the absurdity is like who would make this robot and for what purpose. Like there's literally no purpose for this.

You've made this robot and all it does is serve itself grapes and kind of be carried around on its bed. It's literally a useless robot. It serves no function. It's just seeking to always gratify itself.

And the Christian life can look like that. Everyone wants to be a Christian. Not many people want to be slaves. Everyone wants to be a follower of Jesus. But not many people want to be crucified. And that all begins when you've ordered your life that you never have to deny yourself in any way.

If I don't deny. The the slightest impulses of my flesh. If I'm not even denying thoughts. That's a wrong way to think about someone. That's a wrong way to react to that conversation. That's a wrong way to take What I've overheard.

I could be a lot more charitable that you're if you're not learning how to deny yourself in the small simple ways. How will you deny yourself in the costly way? That's the difference between a belly worshiper and a birdwatcher someone who can't see and Someone who's looking all around them all the time.

Paul and we're gonna be looking at this a lot more fully next week as I said Paul in Philippians 4 When he's going against those whose God is their belly. And Philippians 4 He says let me tell you what I've done in my pursuit of Christ.

I've learned in whatever state I am to be content. In other words, he says I'm not a belly worshiper. I have built up my faith in God. Why. Because I've learned how to be content. What did that education look like?

I learned how to be abased and I learned how to abound. What did that education look like everywhere and in all things I learned to be full. I also learned to be hungry. Notice the key word it's being emphasized by repetition.

I learned. You don't realize providentially you're being taught all the time as a Christian. You know that you're always being taught. Every relationship and circumstance in your life right now is God's lesson for you.

And what does Paul have to learn? It's really interesting how he structures his verse. He doesn't say whether I was full or hungry. I had to learn to be content. That's not exactly what he's saying. Pay attention.

I know how to be abased. I know how to abound. Everywhere in all things I learned to be full and I learned to be hungry. Do you see what he's saying? I Learned to be hungry. I learned how to suffer. I Put in the time to educate myself on how to go without.

I Learned how to ignore those pains. How to deal with and get past those flashes of desire. I learned how to do that. Paul said I was taught how to do that. Part of the problem is we we want to learn how to be filled.

We don't want to learn how to be hungry. We were willing to learn how to abound. We don't want to learn the lessons of how to go without of how to be denied. Paul says I had to learn both. I Had to be taught both.

Do you realize that God wants to teach you how to be hungry this morning? Do you realize that God wants to teach you how to be denied this morning, but you have to realize he's only doing that. So that ultimately you will be filled that ultimately you will abound everlastingly.

And this becomes an anchor this hope becomes an anchor for the soul of the Christian. Was it Horatio Spafford? Words behind his famous hymn and you know. You know the hymn it is well with my soul and perhaps the story behind it of him losing.

I Believe it was his wife and his daughter in a cruise ship that sunk and as he took the cruise in great Distress and despair over their passing and he passed over the spot where that cruise liner had sunk.

He wrote this hymn and included within it as the line whatever my lot Thou has taught me to say it is well with my soul. He understood you're teaching me something here Lord. You're teaching me. There's a lesson to be learned here.

About who you are.

We looked at two weeks ago psalm 131 surely I have calmed and quieted my soul like a weaned child with his mother. Like a weaned child is my soul within me. That's a child who has learned how to be quiet.