So here is Elijah, running through the wilderness until he comes to a juniper tree. He sits under the tree and asks something of God. He has one of the most honest conversations with God recorded in Scripture. He asks God to take away his life.
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This week as I was looking through my list of verses with the words one another, right at the bottom was a verse that jumped out at me. It’s I John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
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Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love and then continues to list off a whole list of ways we can do that. We could spend a whole season just in this passage. But one has kept returning to mind. Its found in verse 15. Weep with them that weep.
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Interview with Jesse Archer
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Have you ever looked at a family and really wanted to be a part of it? Maybe you had a rough family growing up or you just weren’t super close and your best friend’s family seemed awesome. Or maybe it was just a part of that family that you wished for - being told you were loved, or the hugs, or the games, or the laughter.
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For this season I started studying the one another’s of the Bible. You know, all the love one another and bear one another’s burdens verses. Being in school for counselling, I’m fascinated by how the body of Christ should work together to help those who are in need, which is all of us at some time or another.
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Today we’re going to talk about the feeling of being abandoned by God and the three questions the psalmists asks of God in Psalm 77.
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I see you standing there in the corner.
You’ve failed. Again. You know it and I know it. You gave into your flesh, into temptation. You’re living in despair. You’ve doubted God in the middle of trials. The why doesn’t really matter as much as, we have found ourselves here. Standing in the corner. In the shadows.
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I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
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The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
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Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
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How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
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In our last episode, we talked about being slandered or forsaken by people that you love. But more importantly we looked at how God had built a pavilion, a secret place for those who needed to run away to Him. Those situations definitely make me feel like running away to God. But that’s not the only time I wish for a secret pavilion.
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Have you ever stood in a checkout line and been surprised by the fact that someone you thought was perfectly human is supposedly an alien?
The world is full of misinformation. And it seems trite and maybe even funny when a magazine tells us someone is an alien, or prints a photoshopped picture. But what if the misinformation is about you?
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Every one of us, at some point in our lives will find ourselves afraid. Some of us struggle with fear more than others. Maybe today, like our psalmist, you’re afraid. And you don’t know what to do next.
My name is Jennifer Holmes. I am a christian, a wife, a mom to three beautiful children, music teacher, and lover of words, both written and spoken.
I also happen to have the label of mental illness, particularly Bipolar II.
In the summer of 2018, just before I was diagnosed, God started showing me something profound in the Psalms. Something that would change my life. He was preparing me for the diagnosis ahead.
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