Intimacy in Brokenness

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Sometimes, we don’t see the blessings that God has given us in their complete form. It doesn’t seem to be manifesting in our lives and that is where we need to become attentive and we have to acknowledge even those smallest of things that the Lord is doing in our lives.

Psalmist while writing psalms would talk about their raw emotions, and they would bring these raw emotions that they are feeling or experiencing to God. When we read these emotions, their expressions may look like faithlessness. But the fact is that these emotions were a sign of worship and dependence on God. They would come to God for answers and solutions to what they were feeling or going through. My prayer to God this morning is that you would make it your cry, your prayer, your desire to depend on God even when you are broken.

In Psalms 42:9, the psalmist is confessing that God is his rock and he is also crying because he knows that in this season he has been sinking. He knows that he is not able to stand steady. If he has God as his rock, does he need to cry! And yet in the midst of all the contradictions, he stands up and he declares that you are my God and you are indeed my rock. He is praying and crying out to God saying, “Why have You forgotten me?”

In human relationships, when you feel something about somebody, you usually don’t want to express it to them unless that person is very close to you. We confront those people that mean a lot to us. And here, the psalmist is going to God and he is confronting God with his questions, “Why have You forgotten me?” This confrontation is proof of his dependency on God and on his relationship and intimacy that he has with God.

We may experience grief here on earth. There are seasons in our life when we feel like we are wandering in grief. Grief has a way of taking our eyes off the path that we are supposed to walk on and it also creates a delusion that God is not with us and that He does not care for us.

But, if we are willing to bring our grief before the Lord and pour our hearts before Him, then God has a solution for us. Express your grief before the Lord. Let God know that you choose to find help in the presence of God.

Let God’s presence invade your life like never before and may God give you victory in experiencing Him that will cause you to forget all your grief or lack or sense of direction.

May the Lord be with you through the course of this day ahead.