Scripture: Psalm 13
“Prayer delights God’s ear; it melts His heart; it opens His hand. Plead with Him earnestly, either He will remove the affliction or remove the impatience.”
Thomas Watson
“Worship is meant to consist of much more than singing happy and thankful songs. And ultimately, I had missed something about God himself – the fact that He is not afraid of our struggle, pain, confusion, or even our anger. More than that, he wants us to bring those things to Him in song, and He so intended to underscore this desire for us that He gave us more examples of tearful and pain-filled ‘praising’ than he did jubilant and triumphant celebration . . . If Scripture regulates worship, as we believe, then it calls for something more daring, more poignant, and, yes, more costly than we would prefer to give. Again and again the message of the Psalms re-echoes: ‘To wrestle with God is worship. Bring your broken and turbulent heart with you.’”
Ewan Kennedy
“It is an act of faith and wisdom to be sad about sad things.”
Zack Eswine
“Is there nothing to sing about today? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be.”
Charles Spurgeon
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