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God Knows We Feel Today's Devotional Read: Psalm 42 Bible in a Year: Song of Songs 6–8; Galatians 4 By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life. Psalm 42:8 Feeling overwhelmed, Sierra grieved her ’s fight with addiction. “I feel bad,” she said. “Does God think I have no faith because I can’t stop crying when I’m praying?” “I don’t know what God thinks,” I said. “But I know He can handle real emotions. It’s not like He doesn’t know we feel.” I prayed and shed tears with Sierra as we pleaded for her ’s deliverance. Scripture contains many examples of people wrestling with God while struggling. The writer of Psalm 42 expresses a deep longing to experience the peace of God’s constant and powerful presence. He acknowledges his tears and his depression over the grief he’s endured. His inner turmoil ebbs and flows with confident praises, as he reminds himself of God’s faithfulness. Encouraging his “soul,” the psalmist writes, “Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God” (v. ). He’s tugged back and forth between what he knows be true about God and the undeniable reality of his overwhelming emotions. God designed us in His image and with emotions. Our tears for others reveal deep love and compassion, not necessarily a lack of faith. We can approach God with raw wounds or old scars because He knows we feel. Each prayer, whether silent, sobbed, or shouted with confidence, demonstrates our trust in His promise hear and care for us. What emotion have you tried hide from God? Why is often hard be honest with God about difficult or overwhelming emotions? Unchanging , thank You for assuring me that You know I feel and need process my ever-changing emotions. 
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That scripture really grabbed me! "At night, His song is with me." I found a website that has multiple radio channels of all kinds of music. Their Christian selection includes one that has many of the songs that we sang in church back in the 80s. I pull up that channel at bed time and leave it play softly all night to feed my spirit and soul. In fact, I am listening to it as I spend a little time on the computer this morning. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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