Pastor Drew referenced the Christmas story in Luke and the prophecy of Isaiah to speak on God’s attribute of peace.  David Powlison has recently posted a great meditation on Psalm 131 in such a way that he depicts an “anti-Psalm” vs. the “real Psalm.”  He argues that “Psalm 131 is show-and-tell for how to become peaceful inside.”

What he does is to contrast a God-centered worldview with that of a godless worldview.  Here is the anti-Psalm 131:

Self,

my heart is proud (I’m absorbed in myself),
and my eyes are haughty (I look down on other people),
and I chase after things too great and too difficult for me.
So of course I’m noisy and restless inside, it comes naturally,
like a hungry infant fussing on his mother’s lap,
like a hungry infant, I’m restless with my demands and worries.
I scatter my hopes onto anything and everybody all the time.

Contrast that with the real Psalm 131:

O Lord,

my heart is not lifted up;
my eyes are not raised too high;
I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.
But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child is my soul within me.