Psalm 119:28 - Strengthen me according to Your Word

My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.

My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

How do we handle depression? Much of our advertising and media bombard us with images of happy people. This can become the unspoken "ideal life". So when we encounter emotions that may contradict this imagery we find ourselves unprepared.

But the Scripture sees sorrow as a part of the human condition. Many of the Psalms deal with feelings of overwhelming depression. And as the Bible addresses these feelings we find that it gives us the guide to navigate through sorrow - the promises of Scripture itself.

God's word assures us in our sorrow and gives us lighthouses of hope to help us navigate through the dark moments of our soul.

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Today's Commentary by:
Dave Whitehead, Senior Pastor Grace NYC

Habakkuk 2:20 - Let all the earth be silent before Him

But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him.

But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Habakkuk is a unique dialogue between the prophet and God. 50-80 years after Isaiah, Habakkuk was to help the nation of Israel make sense of the Babylonian invasion through this drama that is played out for the readers.

In the prior verses, God ridicules the idols that cannot speak to those who make them. In contrast, it is the earth that is to be silent before the living God because He is the one who speaks!

Like Israel in that day, we want fast answers to our crisis, but if we want to hear the God who speaks, we must learn the discipline of silence. It is the supreme act of faith and surrender to simply wait upon the Lord. He is there and He wants to speak to His children, but it will be on His terms and not ours

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Today's Commentary by:
Dave Whitehead, Senior Pastor Grace NYC