5 Minutes with Jesus” is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh: How to Worship God When Life Doesn't Make Sense | 5 Minutes with Jesus | September 26, 2025
- Times like these.
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- Test our faith to its very core.
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- Can we still worship when life makes no sense?
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- Is god still worthy in the middle of our pain?
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- Whatever dark cell you find yourself in today,
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- Will you choose to worship god?
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- Will you choose to raise your hands
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- Even when you face is marked by tears?
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- If you do so, jesus says he is close
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- And you are blessed.
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- In proverbs chapter three, verses five and six,
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- We read this.
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- Trust in the lord with all your heart.
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- Do not depend on your own understanding.
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- Seek his will in all you do.
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- And he will show you which path to take.
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- Is it hard for you to trust god when you don't understand
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- What he's doing?
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- When you can't see his hand,
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- When you don't feel his goodness?
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- I remember a conversation i had with a woman
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- Who was struggling with those very emotions.
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- Why would
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- God give me a miracle only to snatch it away?
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- She cried.
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- I mean, it wasn't a question, really.
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- It was more of a pain filled cry from her heart.
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- She'd asked if she could talk to me
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- For a few minutes in private, during the lunch
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- Break of a conference where i was teaching.
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- We were told we couldn't have children, she began.
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- We tried for years and years, and we'd almost given up.
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- When i discovered i was pregnant,
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- I remember light flickering for a moment in her eyes,
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- But it was quickly extinguished.
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- He lived for four hours.
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- She said, why would god do that?
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- Why would god give me a miracle
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- Only to snatch him away?
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- Would he say to that kind of grief?
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- There were no words big enough to hold that kind of pain.
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- Sometimes the well of human suffering is too deep for words.
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- All i could do was hold her for a while.
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- I prayed for her as she got up to leave.
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- And i prayed to someone who understands
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- What it's like to watch a son die.
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- Once more, i found myself drawn back
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- To a little verse included in luke's gospel.
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- It's a verse that's often overlooked.
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- I think god has tucked a tiny puzzle piece into nine words.
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- Blessed is the one who is not offended by me.
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- You might remember the story that precedes these nine words.
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- John the baptist is being held in the dungeon of king
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- Herod's palace.
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- This was a man of the wilderness,
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- And he's now confined to a dismal, dank cellar.
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- And as if that isn't painful enough.
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- John is now tormented by doubt.
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- So tormented that he asks his friends
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- To go to jesus and ask him this strange question.
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- Are you the one who is to
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- Come, or shall we look for another?
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- Why is this question strange?
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- Because john had spent his whole life preparing for the moment
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- When god would reveal the messiah,
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- And he would have the joy of crying out.
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- Behold, the lamb of god, who takes away the sin of the world.
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- John watched that day when the holy spirit descended
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- On jesus like a dove.
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- And john heard the voice of god declare,
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- This is my beloved son.
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- But now john was in a dark prison, and doubts
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- And lies slithered around a cell.
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- What if you got it all wrong, john?
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- John. what if you identified the wrong man?
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- Besides, where is this jesus now?
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- Longing for an answer that would flood his cell with light.
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- John sent his friends to jesus.
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- But jesus response was, tell john,
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- I'm doing the things the messiah does.
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- And then this blessed is the one who is not offended by me.
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- And in fact, jesus was asking,
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- Will you love a god
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- Who's not coming to get you out of that prison?
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- John?
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- Will you worship a god you don't understand?
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- Will you still follow me
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- When your heart is broken?
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- Times like these.
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- Test our faith to its very core.
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- Can we still worship when life makes no sense?
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- Is god still worthy in the middle of our pain?
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- Whatever dark cell you find yourself in today,
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- Will you choose to worship god?
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- Will you choose to raise your hands
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- Even when you face is marked by tears?
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- If you do so, jesus says he is close
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- And you are blessed.
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- Jesus answered, go and tell john what you've seen and heard.
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- The blind receive their sight, the lame walk,
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- Lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear
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- The dead are raised up,
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- And the poor have good news preached to them.
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- And blessed is the one
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- Who is not offended by me.
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- We pray for you.
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- Father, sometimes
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- It's hard to see your hand when life seems to go so wrong.
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- I pray right now for anyone who finds himself
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- In a dark place with questions tormenting them.
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- Holy spirit, would you visit them?
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- Would you rest upon them and let them know
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- That you are with them?
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- And blessed is the one who is not offended.
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- Today, jesus, we choose to worship you even
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- In the midst of the darkness.
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- In your precious name. amen.
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