God can handle our honesty
When there is a burden in my life, who do I bring it to in the first place? And how do I react to it? Do I allow it to become the center of my life, or do I bring - or mention the burden, if I have no strength to bring it anywhere - to the one who is the Center? How liberating and freeing it is to be honest before God!? No wonder Psalms, the prayer songs of the Bible, are full of lines like " Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again— my Savior and my God!" (Psalm 43:5). This kind of a line can only be said after one has been wrestling with God about a burden that really is in ones life; after a time where the heart and its condition is honestly revealed to the One who anyway knows everything. Here, the author of this song has first told and basically complained to God about his situation and circumstances. He has thus been in God's presence. And in His presence our perspective changes to see His possibilities, powe