Is it Biblical to cry and get upset?

[stunnedbygrace]

Listening now

@TLHKAJ over here, opening me up like a can of pringles, gonna cry all over the place

Very on point lyrics, thank you <3

I don’t think the pringles will work very well. Try Kleenex.

 

[DuckieLady]

I don’t think the pringles will work very well. Try Kleenex.

I laughed so hard at that one

Lol okay I'm gonna go get out of my system and listen some more, I'm genuinely ready now

Talk soon all

 

[amigo de christo]

I laughed so hard at that one

Lol okay I'm gonna go get out of my system and listen some more, I'm genuinely ready now

Talk soon all

Sister you wipe those tears and leap up and praise the LORD . Just think about the day we all meet with our LORD
and are forever free from this bodies and with the glorious LORD . We gonna be singing and dancing a jig .

 

[TLHKAJ]

I don’t think the pringles will work very well. Try Kleenex.

I laughed so hard at that one

Lol okay I'm gonna go get out of my system and listen some more, I'm genuinely ready now

Talk soon all

Sheer talent! (I laughed, too! LOL)
@stunnedbygrace you have a nack for humor+compassion. Bless you!

 

[TLHKAJ]

Sister you wipe those tears and leap up and praise the LORD . Just think about the day we all meet with our LORD
and are forever free from this bodies and with the glorious LORD . We gonna be singing and dancing a jig .

Tears are a good thing, brother. Not tears of despair and hopelessness .....but tears of release. Our sister is following the Lord's leading. She's in the BEST hands!! Trust Him. It's His work.

 

[Hidden In Him]

So I was praying and I was asking God where am I just not trusting you and can you pinpoint this out to me, and I know for a fact I got back very clearly "cry! and get upset."

Need to explain: I spent a lot of time crying to God and getting back nothing, to the point I put up big fat walls and cut myself off emotionally and numbed myself.

So I get it, but are there Biblical example of this? I need some encouragement before I am ready to go there emotionally. I am just really guarded about this and not sure how deep I am prepared to step into that.

I think you hear from Him well. There have been times when I didn't cry, but I got very emotional with Him, and by that I mean downright upset. I have had it out with my God a few times, but He has always honored my faith in Him that my desires had value. Once was when I was studying a particularly hard passage of scripture to interpret, and while I am used to getting answers quite quickly, this was one time when I had spent a few weeks mulling over all of the possible interpretations of the passage and the potential transitions of the various words in it, and I still had not received my answer yet. I remember standing in my living room and telling Him at the top of my voice that if He wanted me to understand His word and teach it accurately to His people then WHERE WAS HE.

The answer then came almost immediately after that, and I believe it was because I was expressing faith in Him that He needed to answer the prayers of His son.

You will find this same kind of faith in David, which is why if you study his life as a soldier of God, you see all kinds of emotion pouring from him in the psalms, like on a continual basis. He was under constant threat from enemies, so there would be fears involved, as well comforts in the midst of battle and political challenges from enemies. So anyone who tells you emotions don't enter into the spiritual life have no idea what they are talking about, and have no idea what a life of true service to God is. The apostle Paul was another one; emotions ran all through his letters and literally shout of pleading to be understood, of fighting against his spiritual enemies, of fighting against opposition in the flesh, of having to continually endure "the anxieties concerning all the churches" from the enemy tearing them apart, etc. It's a war, and a war has casualties, consequences and pains, and sufferings. But it also has great victories, and glories and honors, and through it all there is a strengthening of one's faith in the Love and Faithfulness of God.

TLH posted this elsewhere and I just listened to it. If you are down, this is a very pretty song.

This is another one by Upton on crying out to Him; maybe from a different situation than yours, but the need to cry out to God is always common to those who are truly His.

 

[Hidden In Him]

@FluffyYellowDuck
Listen to the words of this song.... while you go to the Lord....

Lol! That's what happens when you don't have time to read through an entire thread before responding. You end up posting something that someone already has.

 

[DuckieLady]

I think I'm gonna get me 300 Beanie Baby foxes and some keychain flashlights

 

[Hidden In Him]

And because it feels like just mine and I used to want it to be shared, but now I exist alone here. I've gotten okay with existing alone here and I made it my "brain bedroom."

I seem to be in an alone time as well, and have been for at least half a year now. But this is another thing the servants of God have to endure at times. Elijah became so distraught in being chased by Jezebel that he cried out to God that he was the only one left in Isreal still serving Him. That's when the Lord reminded him that He still had 7,000 who had not yet bowed the knee to Baal.

Your video is beautiful.

 

[Hidden In Him]

I think I'm gonna get me 300 Beanie Baby foxes and some keychain flashlights

That will fix it for sure.

 

[Lambano]

Your video is beautiful

I don’t know. The bitter sense of loss and loneliness from the video contrasted with the promise of what could have been, and the bitter anger from the Samson reference…

 

[Hidden In Him]

I don’t know. The bitter sense of loss from the video and the bitter anger from the Samson reference…

Nah. Just expressing anguish is all. Bitterness is a bad spirit to walk in Biblically, but that speaks more specifically to holding resentments toward others. That's not really what's being expressed in either here.

 

[Lambano]

Nah. Just expressing anguish is all. Bitterness is a bad spirit to walk in Biblically, but that speaks more specifically to holding resentments toward others. That's not really what's being expressed in either here.

That’s not what I see.

 

[Hidden In Him]

That’s not what I see.

Quite alright. Art can be seen and interpreted in different ways; all depends on how we are viewing it, based on our own live experiences.

 

[quietthinker]

Yep. Seeing God through the lens of humans. Since they hurt me, He might too.
I think Santa Claus hurt me. The betrayal when I found out I’d been lied to about him and the tooth fairy made me say about God, oh, it’s probably another lie they’re telling me. It’s almost like a carefully planned out set up so that when you DO hear something true, you won’t believe it.

what you're saying sbg is no joke. The system thrives on lies, particularly religious lies and confusion is its fruit.....and you wanna know why people medicate!

 

[Lambano]

Quite alright. Art can be seen and interpreted in different ways; all depends on how we are viewing it, based on our own live experiences.

Why this video, and why now?

I may be way off base. I can put 2 and 2 together and get 5 as fast as anyone on the planet.

 

[DuckieLady]

I don’t know. The bitter sense of loss and loneliness from the video contrasted with the promise of what could have been, and the bitter anger from the Samson reference…

nailed it

 

[GTW27]

I'm not going to explain it but I'm going to share it because I have the freedom to share it with friends without feeling judged for bring too emotional or dramatic or too deep. I think I can put that worry behind me and feel comfortable.


And because it feels like just mine and I used to want it to be shared, but now I exist alone here. I've gotten okay with existing alone here and I made it my "brain bedroom."

Not everyone appreciates the things I do and some things, I guess, are just supposed to be yours alone.

I don't expect anyone to actually watch, but because I just can and it is safe for me to.

I'm not weird.

Blessings in Christ Jesus. When I played this video I walked away and could feel the pain. What I left out in the words earlier was that when I walked further on this journey, when I was not paying attention, all the pain, all the hurt, and all the scars were gone. For truly He heals the broken hearted. Now all of that is a distant memory. I hope these words encourage because The Lord really is that Good.

 

[Hidden In Him]

I may be way off base. I can put 2 and 2 together and get 5 as fast as anyone on the planet.

nailed it

Well apparently it came out to 4 this time, Lol.

I know she walks in a lot of hurt and disillusionment, I'm just not generally one to allow for that kind of spirit if at all possible, so I tend to try and distract others from it whenever I can. But then sometimes this makes me come off as too hard, and too uncaring at times.

TLH can tell you something about that, LoL.

 

[Lambano]

Well apparently it came out to 4 this time

Not a super power, but 40 years of finely honed failure analysis skills. Figuring out how stuff is supposed to work, and why it breaks.

[Epilogue] In retrospect, I think I need to give some credit to the Holy Spirit. Picking up subtle emotional cues is normally not one of my strengths. Ask my wife about that; she'll tell you.