The past couple of weeks, I have been reading Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day.” The book has been absolutely amazing so far, but recently I read something that was particularly revealing. In the book Batterson talks about when Paul and Silas were in a Roman prison, a place that could be placed on the top 10 worst places you could ever want to be. While they were there they were wholeheartedly worshiping God. For many, this seems kind of ridiculous but when thinking about it, it’s the best option. Sure you could just sit there in silence, or think about how bad your circumstances are, but worshiping God is the best thing to do.
Batterson frames it like this: “When you worship, it produces shock waves that register on the Richter scale. The prison doors fly open. The chains fall off. But the prisoners don’t leave. In one of the most amazing conversion stories recorded in Scripture, the jailer who is about to kill himself puts his faith in Christ, and his entire family is baptized in the middle of the night. You can’t script these kinds of stories! But when you worship God in the worst of circumstances, you ever know what is going to happen next.”
When we feel discouraged by our circumstances, or focus in on something we don’t like about ourselves, we must focus on God, or we will just fall into a slump and be less effective to those around us. Although our problems are huge, God is much bigger and greater.
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