Honesty With God

Hello Everyone,
One thing that makes me thankful about my relationship with the Lord is that I can be real and honest with Him. If I was completely open and honest with people, it would be a disaster.
I am thankful that I can be honest with God and He doesn’t take it personally. I can be honest with God and He will not smack me around or hate or despise me or misunderstand what I am saying or will not want to be around me.

Sure, we talk to God. Most of the time it’s not deep or honest stuff at all. It is just a habit or a ritual. Few of us are ever really honest with God. IF the truth were known, most of us wear masks. Most of us spend our lives piling on more and more layers of protection against the real world. We pray for the things we think we’re supposed to pray for. We say the words we’ve heard others say. We chant or repeat or nod our heads without ever really opening up the secret places of our hearts.

Let me tell you something about God. God knows all about you. Take time to day to look at Psalm 139:1-10 to see how well God knows you.

In Psalm 51 David is honest with God about his sins. I want to focus in on vs. 6. Read with me: Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

What are the inner parts? What is the inmost place? I would like to say that it is when we are alone and it is just me and God and I bare my soul to Him.

Read verse 6 in Psalms 51 in The New Living Translation it says, “But you desire honesty from the heart, so you can teach me to be wise in my inmost being.”

The Living Bible Paraphrase says, “You deserve honesty from the heart; yes, utter sincerity and truthfulness. Oh, give me this wisdom.”

David is saying that the Lord wants us to be honest and open with Him. This is what He desires from us. And why not be honest? He already knows how we feel and what we think anyway.
I love the book of Psalms because it is so honest. There were high times where they expressed their love for God and thanked Him for their blessings. And, there were times that they called it like they saw it sometimes cursing their enemies and sometimes baring their souls by confessing terrible sins.

Jesus was honest with God. In the Garden of Gethsemane, He prayed, (Mat 26:39 NIV) “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will."
Jesus prayed from the cross, My God, My God! Why have you forsaken me?

God is the only one who sees us as we really are down to the core of our being and loves us anyway.
So let’s look at some ways that will help us to be open and honest with God this week, see you tomorrow.

All for Jesus
Pastor Phil