What to do to get your Self out of a Funk

Jesus will offer us help and love and mercy and grace when we come to Him in our funk.

The Funk.  It happens to the best of us.  What do we do to get our Self out of a funk?

When it feels like everything is wrong… but you can’t pinpoint exactly what.  When someone asks you what’s wrong, you say “Nothing,” but mean, ‘Everything.’

It’s the feeling that we’re spinning our wheels but nothing is happening.  We are hamsters in a rat race but we are stuck going around in vicious circles.  It’s the sinking sensation that no matter what we do, all of our list of  “to do’s” will not get done.  It’s the longing for space, peace, calm, order, and gratitude.  It’s the awareness of hurry, discontent, pressure, mess, distraction, and disjointedness.

Often I scramble.  I try to remember, “what have I done when I’ve felt like this before?”  Who do I go to? How do I solve this?  Why did I feel okay last week but today I feel “bleh?”

I’d venture to guess that I’m not the only one.  We all have our ‘funk’ days, or ‘funk’ weeks…..  But it’s good news to know that we are not alone with our Self in a funk.  Hebrews tells us that we have Someone who can help us in our funk days (Jodi translation), “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are–yet was without sin.”  Hebrews 4:15

see http://biblehub.com/context/philippians/4-14.htm

But the message doesn’t stop there, that we have Someone who will help us in our funk.  It gives us more information on How to get our Self out of a funk.  Hebrews four goes on to say this:  “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”  Hebrews 4:16

I don’t know about you, but I’d say having your Self in a funk is a “time of need.”  God’s solution is 1.  We come to Him.  Set all of our frustrations, fears, and failures aside, and COME TO JESUS.  He knows all about our funk, anyway.  There is nothing new under the sun.  He’s heard of our busyness, our problem saying no, our messy checkbook, our overdue library book, our dirty bathroom, our hurt in a friendship, our sorrow over a family member, our struggle with sin.  He knows the funk.  He’s walked on earth and has faced troubles, trials, weaknesses and temptations.  He can sympathize with our funk.   2.  We can have confidence.  We should be comfortable coming to Jesus, because he told us we could.  He is full of compassion.  He won’t hurt us or blame us for our funk.  He will slowly reveal his love, help, grace and mercy, to minister to our Self in a funk.  In exchange for our funk, He will give us his grace (a gift we do not deserve; unmerited favor); and he will give us his mercy (not the judgement or wrath we deserve, but forgiveness and blessing).

However, approaching Jesus when in a funk is only accessible for some.  It is a privilege for those who hold firmly to the faith they profess in Jesus Christ (Hebrews 4:14).  If you have faith in Jesus Christ, then you do have a high priest that is in heaven, waiting for you to come to Him, share your heart, and receive His healing balm.

This is going straight to the Source.  We can wallow in our funk for as long as we like.  We can try to pacify our Self for a time.  We can try to fix the funk with more food, or more exercise, or more sleep, or more time with friends, but ultimately, we are going to need to get our Self into the presence of our Healing High Priest.

Are you in a funk today?  Go to Jesus.  Boldly.  With Confidence.  And lay the funk before Him.  He has compassion.  He will sympathize.  He will revive and restore and remake.  He will give you the Word you need to hear and provide the help that you need.   Bank on it.