Kathy Litton’s life radically changed on July 25, 2002 when her husband was tragically killed in a car accident. In this article she explains how this event altered her worship and how she was able to worship in the midst of this tragic event. She concludes:
On that day I began the struggle of reconciling my theology to the landscape of my life. God was behaving unpredictably. As Larry Crab has aptly stated, ‘One may not conclude that God is good by studying Life.’ I was definitely studying Life—my life; and my heart was making painful conclusions. Yet, worship was appropriate. Although circumstances had changed; God had not. The screens were right, God is good. I had to strap myself to the truths of the Word. My heart was not reliable.
We have all experienced a situation similar to Kathy’s, and what she says is something we all have to do from time to time. We have to strap ourselves to the truth and preach the gospel to our own blinded hearts.