Deeper Life #186

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.

—Psalm 79:9

YOU HAVE SOME THINGS AT home that are of no use to anybody on earth, but to you they are enormously valuable. Your emotions are like that: They may seem pointless to anyone else, but you know they are associated with something quite meaningful.

Let an experience derange your emotions, and what kind of world are you in? It would be a world from which suicide would seem the only escape.

Recall the anguished emotions of the Prodigal Son. Try to fathom one phrase of the Prodigal’s cry: “I have sinned against heaven” (Luke 15:21). Oh, the agony he must have felt! The gloom! The darkness! The shadow! No preaching of the “gospel of good cheer” will touch that. Only the great life-giving, life-imparting Christ can touch those pained emotions.

Prayer Thought: Dear Lord, bring healing to my wounded emotions.

SUGGESTED READING: Psalm 79