Friday, September 3, 2010

Message from Sonya Berges, JH/SH Teacher

“I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.” –Psalms 57:2

“O LORD, God of my salvation; I cry out day and night before you. Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry! For my soul is full of troubles…” –Psalms 88:1-3

I recently read an article that posed the question, “Do you cry out to God?”

My first response was sure, I tell him about my day, I talk with him about His direction for me, I chat with him all the time. As I continued reading the author gave an example of his frightened child the night before. The child had a bad dream and woke scared, alone in a dark room. When they cried out to their father, it was a blood-curdling scream desperate for help.

I’ve faced some frightening situations in life but when I’m honest, I didn’t really cry out to God. I talked, I asked, I may have even whined a bit, but I didn’t really ‘cry out’. God’s ok with our emotions – he gave them to us. Why do we try to hide them from him? I think it’s alright to cry, yell, or plead when the circumstance of life are overwhelming. I’m not very good at it yet, but I’m working on it.

4 comments:

  1. Sonya, Right on. We have an awesome Father just waiting and yearning for us to turn to Him with all of the emotion we can muster. He's a loving Father always there. Thank you for these words.

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  2. Interesting!!! I never thought about CRYING OUT. I always try to keep my emotions "in check" with God. Think I might try to change!!!

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  3. I think that the more we don't cry out and reveal our pain or anger, the more we prevent the Holy Spirit from processing it.

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  4. Keith--I appreciate your addition here--as the HS also serves as a source of proper perspective.

    Jeff Blake

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