Love in Chaos | Week 2 | Brian Classen
“For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.”
– Romans 7:15
“My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.”
– Psalm 42:3-6
“My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
– Psalm 42:3
“These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.”
– Psalm 42:4
1) Be honest with your feelings.
Omniscience is defined as “the state of having total knowledge, the quality of knowing everything.”
“But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.”
– Tim Keller
2) Talk to your heart, don’t listen to your feelings.
“Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?…….”
– Psalm 42:5
“You do what you do because of what you think of you.”
– Craig Groeschel
“Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore, I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.”
– Psalm 42:5-6
3) Find your hope and identity not in the mirror but in the Lord.
If you want to change what you do then change what you think of you.
Four daily habits:
- Say no to perfectionism.
- Give yourself credit daily.
- Press mute on negative self-talk.
- Learn to say no.