When I think about pieces of scripture where people just bare their honest hearts before God, the first thing that comes to my mind are the Psalms. The Psalms compose this collection of one hundred and fifty prayers that are lifted up before God for all sorts of occasions. Some are joyful. Others are filled with pain. Some are confessions and laments. Others praise the name of God. But whatever the Psalmist is thinking and feeling is laid out for God.
Sometimes I think that we get too worried that we are going to hurt God's feelings if we aren't filled with joy all the time. So we end up hiding from God, very similar to Adam and Eve from Genesis 3. But when we hide from God, we are also hiding from God's self-examining presence that can free us from the sin that is holding us bondage.
What would it look like if we were honest with ourselves and honest with God? What would it look like to pray honest prayers and ask God to come into our lives in a powerful way? What could change if we admitted that we needed God instead of trying to protect God from our innermost thoughts and feelings? What could change in our lives today?
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