The Lord is in Your Midst

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For many people Christmas is a time that brings about depression and feelings of sadness. Christmas can bring on the blues. Even though you are a believer, it doesn’t mean that you won’t have feelings of grief, and sorrow. These sorrows and griefs happen to all people at different times and in numerous way. And our tendency is to try to bear them alone. This makes us vulnerable to being isolated in our grief and ineffective in processing it. Grief and sorrow happens to us as individuals, but to bear it alone is deceitful and deadly. Our Scripture passages remind us that we are a people and the Lord is in our midst. What does this mean to the grieving and sorrowing heart? It means you are not alone. It means you shouldn’t bear your griefs alone. The difficulty of rejoicing always is related to thinking that you are the one responsible to produce the joy. However the Lord is at hand! As his people we are together enabled to bear one another’s griefs and sorrows. This Sunday’s sermon we want to take time to acknowledge the reality of the grief and sorrow that we suffer as individuals and as a people. We will also bring these to the Lord, who is in our midst, for he enables us to bear them together. The good news of the gospel is that the Lord is at hand! So, together, with him, we are able to rejoice always and we can let our reasonableness be known to everyone, because the Lord is in your midst.