If we believe in Jesus, feeling joy should be our
default position.
The Bible talks a lot about sadness too—it doesn’t try
to minimize it or sweep it away with saccharine phrases. King David much wrote
about his sadness in Book of Psalm.
I am trying to tell you that you don’t have to feel
bad for feel sad if you’re a Christian because even Jesus was racked with
sadness at times in the Bible. But we have to remember that God also says His
mercies are new every morning—even the times when you don’t want to get out of
bed. With every sunrise, God gives us another blank sheet of paper and invites
us to fill it up with things that make us come alive.
All of us experience negative emotions from time to
time and some of us were born with an extra dose of them because of our genes.
Let people around us be sad if they need to be or go
ahead and be sad yourself if you need to. Then find your way back to hope but
if you’ve lost your way, find someone who is trustful and who you can trust to
share your sadness. Find someone who will reach out to you the way God reaches
out to all of us—fiercely and without stopping until He’s got us wrapped in a
hug.
If you know someone who is trapped by their hurts, go
to them, don't wait too long. And if you’re the one hurting, be sad, but don’t
get stuck. Find someone to travel the path with you. You’ll know you’ve found
the right person if they don’t try to fix you but they’ll just want to be with
you on the way to Jesus. Amen. God bless us.
By Marta Kamaludin.
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