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Friday... The whys of our world can control us.


Psalm 43:5 (NLT), "Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again - my Savior and my God."

The whys of our world can control us?

The writer of Psalm 43 in verse 2 starts out with the right focus, "You are my God, my place of safety" but from that the writer goes into asking why. He says, "Why have you turned your back on me? Why must I go around in sorrow."


Now, over in Matthew 26:36-46, it seems that the humanness of Jesus had some whys about what was going to happen to him but he went to the right source, he went to his Father with deep emotion.

I love the honesty of the Bible. Yes, we may have some whys in our life. Psalm 43:5 says, "Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart sad?" Now we so many times asks the same whys, don't we?

Well, if we would go to Matthew 27 we can see that Jesus got his answer and he handled the most difficult day that anyone has ever gone through and he was handled it because he had gone to the right source. Yes, he was honest and yes he got his answer. Yes, God allowed him to wrestle with his whys and he allows us to do the same. But we don't stop with our whys. That is so important. Read Matthew 27 and see how Jesus handled what we call Good Friday.

Yes, Jesus was part human and part God. We are all human but we have access to God and to his Spirit because of what Jesus went through. Jesus death and resurrection made the difference. That is why Satan spent that time in the garden on Jesus human side because of what he knew was going to happen and he thought he could stop it.

Now the whys of Psalm 43:2 can definitely be and possible are right now some whys that we may have. "Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart sad?" Maybe that is what you are feeling today and maybe those whys are controlling you but they don't have to. We cannot stay there but so many do and it keeps them discouraged and off track.

So we need to pray to God and do verse 3 (NIV), "Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to enter the place where you dwell." Verses 3-4 in The Message says, "Give me your lantern and compass. give me your map, so I can find my way to the sacred mountain, to the place of your presence, to enter the place of worship, meet my exuberant God, sing my thanks with a harp, magnificent God, my God."

And then verse 5 (NLT), "Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again - my Savior and my God."

The Message says, "Why are you down in the dumps, dear soul? Why are you crying the blues? Fix my eyes on God - soon I'll be praising again. He puts a smile on my face. He's my God."

By the way, Easter is coming!!! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning




 

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