In the Word: The Storm of Grief

Welcome to Hope Mommies In the Word devotionals. Over the next few weeks, we will be meditating on Psalm 19 together. As we study these truths together, we’d love you to use the comments as a place to dialogue with us about what you are learning and share your answers to the questions below. We pray that you hearts will be encouraged as you dig into God’s Word each week with us! 

“Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me!
Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.”
Psalm 19:13

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Sin and grief become entangled. Grief is a storm. Sin is a burden. And separating the two accurately so that you can understand them is likely a steep challenge at times. The psalmist’s prayer is a comforting one that I echo—hold me back from sin. After going through loss, I have become convinced all the more deeply with truths surrounding life and death, perspectives about the future, and the value of life and time—and re-examining my convictions has been good. Yet, I have learned to ask: how am I using these convictions to think about others?

Think about the meditations of your own heart. Listen to what you are saying to yourself in the moments of your life that now feel, perhaps, all too quiet. I have asked: Am I disparaging others in any way, rejecting God in any way, or diminishing myself, though I am God’s child—actually, a form of pride—in any way? Am I giving time to thinking about what is simply not true? Take every thought back to the foundation of your rock, Christ in His Word, the One who has redeemed your life from every darkness, now and, finally, in eternity. What churns within? God’s Word can change the course of my thoughts, as needed, and let my mind become replenished with new meditations.

God’s Word refreshes us; it changes us. Let our meditations be pleasing to You; let them be true!

REFLECT:

1.  What thoughts or actions do you need to take captive so that your heart and mind are renewed in Christ?
2. How can you direct your convictions for the benefit of those around you?

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