I am quite the emotional woman.
I will cry when I'm mad, cry when I'm happy, cry when I'm confused, and cry when I'm upset.
Overall, I feel deeply.
Over the last few days I have felt myself caught up in many emotions.
I’ve questioned many things regarding my future and next steps, had a whirlwind week of growing in care for another, and topped it all off with a small car accident.
All of which still leave me with many questions.
Many times I fear my own emotions.
I also fear how others might view my emotions.
However, I am reminded of how our emotions are also vital for our relationship to the Father and our worship to Him.
Emotions are what I like to call, connectors. They prompt response, and that response can be our worship to the Lord (or it could be a sin response).
Emotions are a beautiful part of life as long as we channel them correctly.
Our emotions can point us to our need for the Savior.
As I sat in my car listening to “Midnight” by Leeland, I was reminded of the beauty of our God.
“Midnight, you catch every tear I cry. Midnight, I can feel you by my side… Where can I go? Where can I flee? There’s not one place that you cannot see. Heaven or hell, dark caves and trees, mountains and hills, desert or deep. Even in my lungs the air that I'm breathing is yours.”
We have a God that never leaves us. In our times of need, He is as close as He was in our time of joy.
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Our God is the God of compassion and comfort. There is nothing on this earth that can comfort us like the love of Christ.
This is also because there will never be a love like Christ’s.
“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
1 John 4:9-10
“For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.”
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:38-39
Christ’s love was sacrificial. Christ’s love brought redemption and atonement.
Christ’s love brought new life.
Christ’s love is never ending and always present.
There is no love like Jesus.
So, how beautiful is it that we have the opportunity to put our hope in someone greater than ourselves and other human beings?
When we hurt, we have a love to lean into that will never be separated from us.
Are you leaning into Jesus? He desires to pull you close.
Will you allow Him to comfort you in every season?
Over the last few days I have been faced with a choice: to find comfort in Christ or to try and find comfort in myself.
Friends, there is only one right answer.
All I have been reminded of lately is this:
Oh, how lovely it is to love Jesus.
The God who never sleeps, always listens, always cares, and always comforts.
Songs for reflection, prayer, and singing:
“Midnight” - Leeland
“Weep With Me” - Rend Collective
“Feeling Low” - Will Reagan, United Pursuit
“Constellations” - Ellie Holcomb
“Never Walk Alone” - Hillsong Worship, TAYA
“I Am Held” - Pat Barrett
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