Singing Psalm 13 for transforming emotions
- Karen Wallace
- Mar 28, 2022
- 3 min read
Updated: Jun 25
Jesus’s transforming emotions
Jesus felt safe to cry out to his Father when he felt forsaken and forgotten, when he traded his righteousness for our sin, and needed endurance as he suffered through death. Just as death could not keep a hold on him, transforming emotions from darkness to light, from death to life, Jesus’s sorrow was turned to joy.
He did this to give you what you need most, that is, access to cry out to his Father and to him knowing that you will be heard if you don’t give up.
The Holy Spirit in transforming emotions
He even gave you his Holy Spirit to live within you to help you cry out and to cry out for you, this process of transforming emotions when you have no words to express the depths of your feelings.
When you deny that you have feelings and hide from him in fear as a result, he is grieved because he loves truth, and he loves you. He wants you to speak the truth in love and helps you do it in his good time.
Your transforming emotions
Jesus frees you to sing Psalm 13 when you feel forgotten, lonely, sorrowful, and ashamed and want transforming emotions to trust, rejoice, hope, and appreciate instead.
It is the Lord who brings you safely and solidly from the former state to the latter. He is equally present when you are in either state, and he carries you and is with you in both.
He is your success even in failure because of the transformative way he uses it. He is transforming emotions out of failure to be more full and rich than if you had never failed.
“But I have trusted in your steadfast love;
My heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
I will sing to the Lord,
Because he has dealt bountifully with me.” ~ Psalm 13:5-6
March 28, 2022
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Heart ♥️ reflection
December 28, 2024
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” ~ 1 Samuel 16:7
Question: What makes a person a good friend?
Heart reflection: Job was a good friend before his sufferings. What about while he was in the midst of his sufferings? After them? Did God repay Job evil for good? No. While we strive for transformation to become better and deeper people, suffering is the tool that God used to transform Job to make him a better and deeper friend than he was before. By weathering the storm of unjust accusations, the Lord infused a humble heart into Job. The Lord waited for Job to see what God endured as a true friend to him. Job waited for the Lord to open his eyes to what it takes to release those who hurt him to be a true friend to them.
“How long will You forget me, LORD?
Forever will it be?
How long until You show Your face
Which You’ve concealed from me?” ~ Psalm 13:1
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The Psalms—Q&A
“How long must I advise my soul,
And constant sadness know?
How long must I be subject to
The triumph of my foe?” ~ Psalm 13:2
How can singing Psalm 13 help me grow in my affection for God and in my connection with others?
Is the friendship I hope to have with God, the Father, Son, and Spirit, and with his people, rooted in the natural and achievable by my effort? Or is it rooted in miraculous light, the supernatural gift that doesn’t follow suit as one might expect, where trust in Jesus is the currency used in this world that will be reimbursed in the next?
“But Your unfailing love I trust;
Your saving pow’r I praise.
The LORD in bounty dealt with me;
My songs to Him I raise.” ~ Psalm 13:5
Engage and grow together!
“Iron sharpens iron,
and one man sharpens another.” ~ Proverbs 27:17
Friday, June 27, 2025
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