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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hello, and thank you for listening to your

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Speaker 1: Daily Bible Verse, the podcast that examines one verse each

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Speaker 1: day to learn more about God and his will for us.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Jessica Venrocol, and after this short word

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Speaker 1: from our sponsor, will dive into today's Bible verse, Psalm

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Speaker 1: chapter one thirty one, verse two. Today's Bible verses Psalm

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Speaker 1: Chapter one thirty one, verse two. But I have calmed

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Speaker 1: and quieted my soul like a weaned child with its mother.

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Speaker 1: Like a weaned child, is my soul within me. Last

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Speaker 1: week I left my house without my phone, not by accident,

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Speaker 1: but on purpose. I had a five minute drive to

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Speaker 1: the gym, so I wasn't worried about getting lost or

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Speaker 1: needing help. I work with a personal trainer, so I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to answer any texts or calls. So on

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Speaker 1: a whim, I left it sitting on my kitchen counter,

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Speaker 1: I walked out of the house, got in my car,

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Speaker 1: and immediately reached for my phone. In those thirty seconds,

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Speaker 1: I forgot I didn't have it with me. I arrived

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Speaker 1: at the gym early and thought I'd check my email

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Speaker 1: or scroll a little on Instagram. But oh yeah, I

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Speaker 1: didn't have it with me. My little experiment showed me

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Speaker 1: how often I pick up my phone when I don't

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Speaker 1: need to use it as a phone. I grew up

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Speaker 1: in the era where the phones hung on a wall

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Speaker 1: connected by a cord. Phones rang. We answered, we didn't

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Speaker 1: just grab it and hold on to it like a

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Speaker 1: security blanket. Now my phone is a gateway to the

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Speaker 1: world knowledge, use and useful or otherwise, and a comfort.

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Speaker 1: By the end of my gym seize session, I felt

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Speaker 1: a sense of freedom of not being available to the algorithm.

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Speaker 1: I hopped in my car and drove the five minutes

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Speaker 1: back home, enjoying the sense of calmness. I felt there

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Speaker 1: were no videos or posts in my head feeding the

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Speaker 1: noise of fear. In comparison, in today's verse, David writes

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Speaker 1: about contentment. It is to be satisfied, which raises the

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Speaker 1: question is God enough He can be our everything, He

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Speaker 1: can satisfy every scratchy place within us. But we must

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Speaker 1: decide to trust the character of the arms which hold us,

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Speaker 1: And David shows us how. There are two possible occasions

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Speaker 1: for the composition of Psalm Chapter one thirty one one,

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Speaker 1: when David was on the run while Saul hunted him down,

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Speaker 1: and two when Michael David's wife accused him of displaying

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Speaker 1: undignified behavior when he danced before the Ark on its

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Speaker 1: return to Jerusalem. At the beginning of this psalm, David

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Speaker 1: declares his humble and contented heart. He renounces pride and

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Speaker 1: arrogance by setting those astat to determine to find satisfaction

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Speaker 1: and serenity in God. He has to quiet the noise.

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Speaker 1: We hear that often, don't we We need to quiet

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Speaker 1: the noise. I believe that this verse today is going

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Speaker 1: to show us how. In verse two, David states that

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Speaker 1: it was his decision to calm and quiet his soul.

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Speaker 1: He calmed himself, he quieted himself, and God used the

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Speaker 1: operation of David's choice to bring him to that state

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Speaker 1: of contentment. It reminds me of the order of operations

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Speaker 1: in a math problems. To come to the correct answer,

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Speaker 1: one needs to follow the correct steps. We can't add

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Speaker 1: first when we're supposed to multiply or vice versa. I'm

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Speaker 1: not a math person, So all you mouth people out there,

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Speaker 1: you can laugh, have a little laugh at this non

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Speaker 1: math person. But you see, David chose to calm and

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Speaker 1: quiet his soul, and God came through with peace and contentment.

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Speaker 1: And in this verse he contrasts the difference between an

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Speaker 1: unweaned and a weaned child. In doing so, David reveals

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Speaker 1: the inner struggle we deal with in trying to get

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Speaker 1: to that place of contentment. An unweaned child only wants

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Speaker 1: his mother with a thought of food and satisfaction, but

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Speaker 1: a weaned child rests on his mother's chest to enjoy

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Speaker 1: her love, closeness, and companionship. And then David goes and

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Speaker 1: repeats it, repeats like a wean child for emphasis. To

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Speaker 1: an unweaned child, the weaning process seems terrible, but it

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Speaker 1: is necessary for his growth, and a wean child comes

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Speaker 1: to love his mother for herself and not the gifts

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Speaker 1: she can give the child. David writes of a victory

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Speaker 1: over the natural response of worrying and fretting to an

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Speaker 1: intentional leaning on God's nurturing presence. The image of a

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Speaker 1: wean child illustrates a trust that no longer demands gratification.

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Speaker 1: There is a trust in the arms of the one

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Speaker 1: with whom the child rests. When our souls become still

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Speaker 1: like a contented child, faith takes a step towards maturity.

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Speaker 1: Because we're resting in God's steadfastness, his loyalty. We move

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Speaker 1: from looking to God for what he can do for

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Speaker 1: us to enjoying his company. When we rest in God

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Speaker 1: like a weaned child, we experience a peaceful alignment in

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Speaker 1: our inner being with the heart of the Father. And

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Speaker 1: Jesus mirrors this invitation in Matthew chapter eleven, verse twenty

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Speaker 1: eight through thirty, when he calls the weary to come

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Speaker 1: to him and find rest. Are you weary today? Are

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Speaker 1: you tired of searching for people's approval? My book Reframing

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Speaker 1: rejection helps point you to the Father's heart so that

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Speaker 1: you can calm and quiet your soul like a weaned child.

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Speaker 1: Contentment begins with a foundational worldview of looking to the Lord. Lord.

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Speaker 1: He is your safe place, He is trustworthy. He invites

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Speaker 1: you to rest in him, trusting him to work things

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Speaker 1: out no matter what your external circumstances are. Today, when

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Speaker 1: you find yourself fretting, place your hand over your heart

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Speaker 1: and say, Lord, I rest in you like a weaned child.

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Speaker 1: Let's pray Heavenly Father, thank you that you see us,

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Speaker 1: that you know that we're going to wrestle with anxiety

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Speaker 1: and worry and fretting, and yet you invite us to

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Speaker 1: rest today. God, we just come to you like a

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Speaker 1: weaned child, not demanding that you perform or do or

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Speaker 1: answer our prayer yesterday, and we're impatiently stamping our foot

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Speaker 1: and demanding, why haven't you answered? Now? No, Lord, we're

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Speaker 1: going to come to you. We're going to trust your

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Speaker 1: heart for us. We're going to rest in you, And Lord,

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Speaker 1: we're going to calm and quiet our heart so that

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Speaker 1: we can receive the peace that you long to give us.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus name, we pray Amen m