We have sadly come to expect that if it is not high and exuberant, it is not worship. This perversion has left hurting folks strewn along the roadside feeling even more despair. Ancient Israel had great laments where they expressed pain as a part of worship. It is not a sin to feel your emotional or physical pain before the Suffering Servant and include it in your worship of Him. Don’t go down the road of denial by masking your pain and calling it worship. Denial and creating false realities will only add to one’s troubles. Simultaneously embracing your pain and the Suffering One is also worship.
“Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.” Psalms 43:5 (NASB)
From “In The Steps of The Shepherd”, by H. Lamar Smith
