Consolation

Ecclesiastes 10-12; Psalms 94; Ephesians 5 

“When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy to my soul.”

Psalm 94:19

“Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Ephesians 5:19, 20

God’s consolation and comfort are available to us through the Comforter, or Counselor, the Holy Spirit. Anxiety is debilitating, robbing us of sleep, health, joy, and strength. Rather than just medicate the symptoms, God invites us to freedom at the core of our being by releasing our anxiety to him and inviting his consolation and inner joy. Worship and thanksgiving are the disciplines which God uses to replace our anxiety with freedom and joy. We can choose to make music in our hearts to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything. Attending to the inner garden of our soul requires regularly pulling out weeds of anxiety, fear, pride, and self-indulgence and replacing them with the ‘water’ of the Spirit on seeds of faith, hope and love.

What is growing within our soul?

“Lord Jesus, you are life and freedom in me, for your glory.”