Learn to choose to feel blessed, even in difficult times, without toxic positivity. Don't ignore your emotions, but learn to lament and turn to praise.
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I choose to feel blessed despite what I am going through
“My heart is breaking as I remember how it used to be: I walked among the crowds of worshipers, leading a great procession to the house of God, singing for joy and giving thanks amid the sound of a great celebration!” - Psalm 42:4 (GW)
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Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for yet I will praise Him, my Saviour and my God.
My perception of reality is often more important than reality itself. I respond to what I feel is real. I can’t downplay my feelings. My emotions tell me what I truly believe. But I pray that the eyes of my heart may be enlightened in order that I may know the hope to which He has called me and the riches of His glorious inheritance to His holy people. I choose to feel blessed despite what I am going through, because I know I am blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
But I need to have Holy Spirit reveal the truth that will replace the lies I am believing.
I don’t ignore the most brutal reality I am facing and I don’t put on a mask and pretend it will all go away. Instead, I use the Psalms of Lament to pour my heart out to God. I find a Psalm that feels the way I do and camp out on it until Holy Spirit speaks truth to the lie and I have peace and joy return to my heart. I do this mainly in private, and it will most often turn to praise.
How long, Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death, and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes will rejoice when I fall. But I trust in Your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in Your salvation. I will sing the Lord’s praise, for He has been good to me.
Since I live in the light, I must be clearheaded, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. Because this hope will not lead to disappointment, since God’s love has been poured out into my heart through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to me. I am joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Today, I will find something I feel grateful for regardless of what I am experiencing. I will take my lament to the throne room of God and pour out my heart to Him. I choose to feel blessed despite what I am going through.
Reflection Questions to Ask Holy Spirit:
- Am I able to pour out what I’m feeling to You?
- Do I trust You’ll show me the lie I’m believing?
- Do I believe You’re working all things together for the good?
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