Lift Your Head

What helps you "lift your head" with hope when facing difficult situations?

Luke 21:28

“Lift up your heads.”

In Psalm 3, the psalmist names God the “lifter of our heads,” yet in this verse from Luke, we are called to lift our own heads. Is this a contradiction? A challenge? A call for collaboration?

Hope, courage, trust, and perspective, all manifest differently in different seasons, sometimes it comes from within us and sometimes it only stems from divine grace.

So in disappointing moments, we can find strength in our community, leaning on one another to bolster our hope. When we despair, it’s time to call on the Spirit to collaborate with us, joining together to seek when it seems hard to find.

And when we feel utterly defeated and alone, that’s when God steps in and lifts our heads, allowing us to rely on their divine strength to get us through.

No matter how our heads are lifted, they are lifted just the same.

What helps you "lift your head" with hope when facing difficult situations?

— Amanda Creek