What do you do when you feel like you’re doing all of the right stuff, and you’re just missing God?
- It doesn’t mean God isn’t real
- It doesn’t always mean you’re doing everything wrong
- It doesn’t always mean you’re outside of the will of God
- You’re not alone in that feeling… We all go through it
Psalm 13:1-4
1 How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and day after day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?
3 Look on me and answer, Lord my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,
4 and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”
and my foes will rejoice when I fall.
There’s a difference between this and actual deep depression, crippling sadness or grief, but sometimes we just go hard after God and feel numb.
God is who God is, regardless of how I feel about Him, or if I even believe in Him. Somehow we often believe the lie that our feelings about someone alter who they are, and the burden of proof is on them to redeem themselves in our eyes. It's not true.
- God is Loving. (1 John 4:8)
- God is Faithful. (Deuteronomy 7:9)
- God is Merciful. (1 John 1:19)
- God is Righteous. (Psalm 145:17)
- God is Good. (Psalm 100:5)
- God is Giving. (Philippians 4:19)
- God is Real. (Romans 1:20)
… and how we feel about any of those things doesn't change who He is at all. So, why are we so consumed with how we feel in following Jesus?
Psalm 13: 5-6
5 But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
6 I will sing the Lord’s praise,
for he has been good to me.
David ends this Psalm with prayer, with worship and with determination to move forward.
What I would love to see Living Faith commit to in 2026:
- Faithfulness
- Prayer
- Worship
Let’s Commit to Faithfulness
Our feelings are not directly dictated by our faithfulness, so why do we chose to offer faithfulness in exchange for feeling?
Faithfulness over time.
Galatians 6:9
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Let’s Commit to Prayer
In Psalm 13, David chose to pour out his heart to God instead of stewing in his own hurt and questioning the existence of God. What if we committed to actually truly go to God in prayer together? Not just for some special event or even a specific thing, what if we just did it?
Let's Commit to Worship
When David said, "I will sing the Lord’s praise, for he has been good to me," I don’t think he was talking up God in order to get God to help Him, and start being more present in his life. I think he was choosing to believe what we already knew to be true, regardless of feeling.
Psalm 33:1
Sing joyfully to the Lord, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him.
We are commanded to worship, yes But more than that, we’re invited in to it. We need to be reminded of His goodness.
My Challenge for You This Year:
Don’t be so wrapped up in the great stuff you “feel” from God. Do the things He calls us to do. Seek His Face. Walk closely with Community. Be Faithful.
