Honesty with God
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Part 1
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Why is openness and transparency with God so important?
Because the enemy will make you feel guilty about any and every little thing that you felt you have done wrong. The enemy will bombard your thoughts with what you have done wrong to make you feel guilty.
I once read that any negative or guilty feelings are not of God, we should recognise these feelings and shake them off.
THE most important thing is to be open and transparent with God about how you feel. Ask for His forgiveness… Tell Him to help you with your addiction… or struggle… or temptations…. financial difficulty… marital problems…. whatever is making you lose your peace 🙏
He already knows all about it because He knows you better than you know yourself, He knows what you’re thinking before you even thought it!
“You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.”
He loves you despite your weaknesses and He loves you exactly the way you are.
I make mistakes and l mess up ALL the time. Sometimes l say and do things that thinking back l cringe or l feel embarrassed or guilty.
I have learned over time not to lose time by wallowing in my guilt or negative feelings. I learned that it’s important to speak to the Lord about it and tell Him EXACTLY how l feel. This opens the lines of communication between us which is so important because it creates an intimate relationship with HIM.
So don’t waste time. Receive healing and feel at peace. Be honest, open and transparent with Him ✨
Does He Even Hear Me?
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Part 2
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Why can we be so open and transparent with God as our Heavenly Father?
Why is it that despite messing up or when we go through really deep dark and difficult things in our lives we can GIVE those things that hurt us deeply to Him?
Whether it’s something we have done or something done to us God’s word is quite clear.
Psalms 40:1-2 NLT says
“I waited patiently for the Lord to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along.”
Have a look at the highlights. This Psalm of David is a cry to the Lord. Don’t we find ourselves crying out to the Lord every time we mess up? Everytime someone hurts us deeply?
David’s Psalm tells us that HE answered him, that HE lifted him out of the pit of despair and set his feet on a solid rock.
We also have to be patient WHEN we are going through difficulties and struggles, David says “l waited patiently for the Lord to help me”. And then he goes on to say that the Lord HEARD Him!
So much of the time we are so focused on our struggle, our heartache, our difficulty we forget that our Father DOES hear us.
There was a time in my life when l went through deep and dark waters in my marriage, my husband had left me. I felt abandoned, my hopes and dreams for my life, my marriage, my future was shattered. My 5 year old daughter no longer had her daddy there on a daily basis.
I felt devastated because my parents were divorced and it had left deep scars on my life and my brother’s and sister’s lives. I had no hope. I couldn’t eat, l couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t relax. I couldn’t concentrate on my job.
I did not know how to face my job, my colleagues, my life, my day, it felt like everyone knew what l was going through. I felt embarrassed and ashamed.
At the beginning when the devastation started l would go to the corner café in the morning, get a cup of coffee and read the Psalms. I came across Psalm 40 and for days that’s all l would read before work. My spirit would cry out to the Lord. I desperately needed Him, l felt so lost.
Even though this Psalm spoke of so much hurt and anguish it comforted me, l felt better just reading it, knowing that right there in the Bible it spoke of how l felt in that moment. It was the words, “He lifted me out of the mud and mire and set my feet on a solid rock” that gave me so much comfort. I wanted and needed to be lifted out of the mud and mire, because that’s what l felt.
I felt glimmers of hope reading that the Lord would set my feet on solid rock because my world was so shaky and l was terrified.
HE is ready and waiting. He will meet you exactly where you are. What do you need to tell Him today? What is hurting you? What difficulty do you face today? What are you facing right now? What is making you feel shaky and terrified?
Your Heavenly Father is waiting for you to pour your heart out to Him.
And then you need to wait patiently for Him.
Wait for the LORD; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the LORD.
He will set your feet on solid ground.
He did restore my marriage because it was HIS plan for me. He is faithful to His word because HE heard my cries and answered my prayers. During my journey there were many things that He led me to make but ultimately He heard my cry.
Going through deep and dark waters is not a bad thing because it forces us to become intimate with the Lord having nowhere else to go. Nobody can fix our broken lives only HE can!