{"id":1164,"date":"2016-08-16T03:31:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T03:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/immanuelpracticum.com\/book\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2016-08-21T02:02:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T02:02:37","slug":"just-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immanuelpracticum.com\/book\/just-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Friends – Just Get Me To Jesus!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Psalm<\/a><\/p>\n

Just Get Me To Jesus!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I have been struggling recently.\u00a0 A real crisis of faith.\u00a0 Relational discord in my family has really been weighing on me.\u00a0 I\u2019m working so hard Jesus!\u00a0 Why isn\u2019t anything changing?!?!\u00a0 Why won\u2019t You DO something?!?!<\/p>\n

Kept trying to connect with Jesus, but couldn\u2019t do it.\u00a0 He felt distant, unrelatable, unreliable, unreal\u2026Has all of this hard work been for nothing?\u00a0 Is it real?<\/p>\n

Talked to a friend who did a good job of attuning for a minute or so.\u00a0 But that only could be sustained for a moment before they began to \u201chelp\u201d.\u00a0 Suggest ideas, \u201cfix\u201d, offer counsel, instruct, theologize\u2026That sure didn\u2019t help\u2026<\/p>\n

Talked to another friend who couldn\u2019t even begin to attune but instead turned the focus onto themselves.\u00a0 \u201cYou think you got it bad?\u00a0 Let me tell you what I had happen to me\u2026\u201d That definitely didn’t help.<\/p>\n

Then I talked to a friend who simply asked if I would be willing to take a minute and look for Jesus with me.\u00a0 I sure didn\u2019t feel like doing that in the moment.\u00a0 \u201cNo thanks, I\u2019d rather just wallow here in my pit of miry clay.\u201d<\/p>\n

But I tried\u2026At first I saw Jesus standing across the room.\u00a0 As I looked at Him, I noticed His arms crossed, fingers tapping, impatient look on His face\u2026That was definitely not Jesus.\u00a0 But probably how I expected Him to look and act towards me.<\/p>\n

So, true Lord Jesus, where are You with me here?\u00a0 He was standing behind me.\u00a0 Hand on my shoulder.\u00a0 I noticed that He had this incredible look on His face that combined peace, compassion, understanding, care, concern, and acceptance.\u00a0 He seemed pleased to be there with me.\u00a0 He seemed pleased with me?\u2026How could that be?<\/p>\n

Then I noticed how it felt to have His hand on my shoulder. \u00a0Earlier I had felt His hand on my shoulder, but it felt like the hand was pushing \/ holding me down. \u00a0I realized in this moment that His hand was actually holding me up.\u00a0 He was lifting me up.\u00a0 Later on I thought of Psalm 40.\u00a0 \u201cHe lifted me up out of the pit, out of the miry clay.\u201d\u00a0 It felt like He was lifting my feet off of the ground.\u00a0 I had been plodding along.\u00a0 Heavy.\u00a0 Weighed down.\u00a0 When I saw and felt Him lifting me, I felt lighter. \u00a0The heavy load I had been carrying was less.<\/p>\n

The moral of the story is, friends, when someone in your life is down, your words aren’t the answer. \u00a0The best thing you can do for them is to get them to the true Lord Jesus and let Him bring the help.\u00a0 He knows exactly what they need!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just Get Me To Jesus! I have been struggling recently.\u00a0 A real crisis of faith.\u00a0 Relational discord in my family has really been weighing on me.\u00a0 I\u2019m working so hard Jesus!\u00a0 Why isn\u2019t anything changing?!?!\u00a0 Why won\u2019t You DO something?!?! Kept trying to connect with Jesus, but couldn\u2019t do it.\u00a0 He felt distant, unrelatable, unreliable, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[36,28,25,27,29,23,13,16,14,26,20,19,24,15],"yoast_head":"\nHey Friends - Just Get Me To Jesus! - Immanuel: A Practicum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The best thing you can do for a friend in need is get them to the true Lord Jesus and let Him help\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/immanuelpracticum.com\/book\/just-jesus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hey Friends - Just Get Me To Jesus! 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