By Andy Flood
Psalm 42 (NIV)
Desperate. David is absolutely desperate, he needs to meet with God.
He remembers all the times he's been in God's presence, and how he'd lead people there too. People are even asking David, "where is your God?"
Is God absent? Has God forgotten David?
Or does David just need to have a word with himself? Remind himself of the truth of God, His promises and His eternal, everlasting faithfulness.
Sometimes our emotions can get the better of us. They can make our circumstances seem overwhelming, they can whisper in our ear, "Where is your God now?" it's easy to be fooled by emotions.
Sometimes they can be allowed to guide our lives. We tell ourselves, "Well, that's just how I feel," as a sweeping statement that can bear no challenge!
Although emotions are a gift from God, allowing us to feel the world around us, to experience the wonderful and the dreadful. They are not meant to guide our lives. By allowing emotions to guide your life, what you’re really saying is, you trust your emotions more than you trust God.
Perhaps it's time to have a word with yourself?
Remind yourself of the truth of God and His promises.
"By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me"
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? (Romans 8: 31-35 ESV)
It is only in God’s light that we can see light, only His truth can set us free. I don't believe we should be dead inside, emotionless. But we must take charge of our emotions, they must submit to Truth.
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