by Matthew Mead
"Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother. My soul is even as a weaned child." Psalm 131:1-2
Chrysostom, in commending the grace of humility, says, "Humility is the foundation of Christian virtue." Indeed, humility is the ornament of all the graces of God's Spirit. Grace is the beauty of the soul, and humility is the beauty of grace. Now David, being about to commend this grace to the saints, does propound himself as an example of it in this Psalm: "My heart is not proud, O Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me." Psalm 131:1.
But what was it, which thus humbled David's heart, and took him off from doting upon the world's grandeur, and from delighting himself in present enjoyments? Why God had, by the power of his grace, taken his heart off from all things here below, by showing him the vanity and emptiness of them; so that he was wholly weaned from them. So he says, verse 2, "I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child."
Doctrine: "Where the grace of God takes hold of the soul—it makes it as a weaned child, to all worldly things."
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