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60 Days of Prayer

Reflections based on
the Psalms of Ascent
in preparation for the
2015 Annual Gathering
of the American Baptist Churches
of Vermont & New Hampshire

March 13 - Psalm 131

3/10/2015

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PicturePhoto ©2015 John Brigham
O Yahweh, my heart, my first reaction as I come to pray this Psalm is a question: If one claims to have learned not to be proud and haughty, have they really learned it? I am reminded of a dear sister in Christ who used to jokingly say: “Humility is my best virtue.”

Dear loving Father, let the opening words of this Psalm, for me, be a plea rather than a proclamation. Lord, help me surrender my proud heart and haughty eyes, trusting absolutely in Your plans and purposes. I pray as George Whitefield prayed for humility: “Lord, help me begin to begin.”

Oh, that I could trustingly rest in your presence as the contented child in her mother’s arms. The Jerusalem Bible puts it this way: “Enough for me to keep my soul tranquil and quiet like a child in its mother’s arms, as content as a child that has been weaned.”

Help me rely totally on You “now and for always!”

I am reminded that Spurgeon said of Psalm 131: “One of the shortest psalms to read, but one of the longest to learn.”

- Carolyn Clarke

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Today pray for:
Congregational-Baptist Church, Chester, NH, and their interim pastor Duke Gray
First Baptist Church, Chester, VT, and their pastor Tom Charlton
Chocorua Community Church and their interim pastor Cliff Vendt
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