Sorry i
haven’t been writing earlier. i really did not know what to write about.
my goal is
to share something that is encouraging, thought provoking or uplifting or just
good for a laugh. Lately i have been wrestling with a
couple of things and i could not think of anything worth sharing with anyone,
here on my blog.
When i
listened to Mandisa’s song “Just Cry” this sentence got me thinking..
You
gotta know God can handle your honesty
i really
felt like that would be something i wanted to share with others.
No idea if
i could write a whole blog post about it.
Maybe i can’t. It’ll just have to be
a shortie then :)
God can
handle your honesty
He can
handle my honesty
Honesty - The
quality of being honest
Honest - Free
of deceit; truthful and sincere
i often
times feel the need to sugarcoat my thoughts and feelings.
Maybe even
my hesitation to write a new blog post because what i had to write wasn’t ‘uplifting
or encouraging or joyful’ enough.. is a display of
not being completely honest. i don’t think i need to be completely honest on
this blog. It’s okay to keep certain things to myself. i just don’t think i
would be doing anyone a favor by “displaying” all my thoughts and feelings here
on this blog. Everyone has their own battles, the good or bad, the happy or
sad.
There’s no
need to bombard you with mine.
i don’t try
to say we all should bottle things up inside and hide our true selves. Not at
all.
i just mean
it’s healthy and natural to be selective in what you do and don’t share with
other people.
And i pray
everyone has at least one or two people in their lives who they are comfortable
enough to share important aspects of their lives with. For we never were
created to go through live on our own.
Still it
is important to have people in your life who you can share the important stuff
with.
Though
in human relationships it is important and healthy to set boundaries and make
choices in what you wish to share and keep for yourself.. It’s a whole
different story when it comes down to our relationship with the Lord.
We don’t
have to be selective in our prayers.
He doesn’t
want us to sugarcoat our thoughts and feelings for Him.
It’s no use
doing so, since He sees the depths of our hearts anyway (Psalm 139)
Us, human
beings, simply can’t handle to always know all of the (ugly) details about the numerous
battles we humans face while living on Earth. We need to be selective in what we share
and with whom, in order to protect ourselves and others. We simply cannot carry
the weight of the world.
Sometimes
when spending time with the Lord, praying, i catch myself trying to protect Him
too.
It
sometimes gets so naturally to keep the hard stuff, the real stuff, outside of
my prayers.
But Mandisa
is right, putting me straight:
the Lord is
perfectly capable of dealing with my honesty.
He can
handle my raw feelings and thoughts.
He doesn’t
need me to sugarcoat any single one of them.
Truth is,
He already knows every single one of them.
But He
waits on me to give Him all of me.
He waits on
me to surrender myself to Him.
He wants
all of me.
The good,
the bad
the happy,
the sad
the dark,
the light
all day,
all night.
He wants
all of me.
He wants
all of you.
And He
wants you to know that He can handle your honesty
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