sad – Wide Spread Interests

moderndayoutsider:

spillybun:

pianoprincesssara:

doctorbluesmanreturns:

Honest question: are Christians ever allowed to be sad? I hear a LOT about how everything that happens is for the best and how we can’t know His plan, but like if my parents died tomorrow in a car accident I wouldn’t really be able to instantly jump to “well it’s all for the best that I lost basically my only family!”

Yes we are allowed to be sad.

Jesus cried when Lazarus died even though He knew He would just resurrect him. We’re definitely allowed to be sad, it doesn’t mean you don’t trust God. God wants us to be honest about what we feel. Plus, He likes to comfort us, He can’t do that if we’re never allowed to be sad.

In Luke 22.44, Jesus – God Himself – was so anxious and upset that He was about to be arrested and crucified that He literally began to sweat blood (a very real phenomenon that still happens today in situations of EXTREME stress)

And in Mark 14.34 Jesus – again GOD HIMSELF INCARNATE – LITERALLY said, “the weight of my sorrow is crushing me to the point of death.”

We are allowed to be sad – distraught – even depressed as Christians; we are allowed to feel it, to cry and to kick and scream in God’s arms and presence. What we should refrain from doing is let that sadness and fear have control over us.

It’s one thing to let yourself feel sadness, to let yourself cry and to take time to heal, because it’s a totally normal human emotion, and another thing entirely to lose your mind or entire sense of self control because of it.

Yes Jesus experienced sadness and let it happen, but He still rested in the hope that all that He was going through would work for the glory of God;even amongst His sadness, He had hope

This is called endurance: suffering, but doing it patiently and with a hope that you are on God’s heart, mind and that your life is in His hands