01/06/2025
You don’t have to have it all together—just come as you are. 🤍
We don’t have to present our shiniest selves to God. No matter what we’re feeling, we can be honest, just like the psalmist who wrote Psalm 42:11:
“Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.”
Psalm 42 concludes with a restorative proclamation — “I will yet praise him” — but what I appreciate the most about psalms of lament like this is that God allowed them to be included in the Bible in the first place! Instead of disowning disillusioned people, God allowed Scripture's 59 “sad psalms” to be His engraved invitation for us to be real with Him — to be honest when our hearts are heavy and not wear fake happy faces.
The biblical narrative proves over and over that His love for us is immutable — it doesn’t change. This means we can share everything with Him — our joy, tears, hopes, dreams, insecurities, anger and fears — all in absolute confidence that He will never leave us, forsake us or stop loving us.
-Lisa Harper
What feelings are you most likely to attempt to hide or minimize instead of bringing them honestly before the Lord?
