January 15 (Psalm 143:4, 6-7)
I am losing all hope;
I am paralyzed with fear.
I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain.
Come quickly, Lord, and answer me, for my depression deepens.
Don’t
turn away from me, or I will die. (NLT)
We all need to be reminded of God’s love, but we also
need to be reminded of something else.
We put on so many pretenses with others, acting as if things are okay
when they really are not. It’s just the
way we get through the day, but we don’t have to do that with God. You don’t have to do that with God.
The man writing these words was David, the greatest king
in Israel’s history, a person described as a man after God’s own heart, and an
ancestor of Jesus. Think about
that. This is the same man who flat out
admits he is losing hope and is paralyzed with fear. Have you ever felt that way? He begs for God to come quickly because of
his deepening depression. Have you ever
been there? He knows that if he does not
see God, he will die. Sound familiar?
If you have ever felt like this, you are in good
company. If you are surprised to find
this in the Bible, then perhaps your image of God and a relationship with Him
is skewed. We cannot admit every private
challenge and emotional struggle at work.
Sometimes we have to put on a happy face that masks the truth. We never have to do this with God. We can lay out the pain and the ugliness in
the most blunt possible way with Him.
Try it. Call out to Him with your
true heart. Write to Him in your journal
with words you would never use in public.
You do not need to impress Him.
He loves you and wants to hear from you, the true you.
Copyright © 2017 by Steven R. Perkins
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