This is a blog that I have been trying to get together in my mind for quite some time. We all wear masks. At some point or another, we are different people at work than we are at home or different people at church than we are at work. Maybe we show more grace to our co-workers than we do to our own family. I know that sometimes I do. The point is, at some point you hide your true self to appear better on the outside. I have something to tell you though: God sees the heart.
He knows your insecurities. He knows your hopes. He knows your dreams. He knows when you think you aren’t good enough. And he knows when you get a big head. He knows your heart and loves you anyway.
We need to take off the masks. We need to be real with people. People don’t need to look at me and think that I have all together. I don’t. Only through the strength that God gives me can I have it together. The more real we are with others the more receptive they are.
Some days I struggle. I struggle with my temper, my thoughts, or any number of other things. I tell God. And I tell my prayer partners. The Bible tells us to pray for one another. When I am having a hard time, I need sometime to pray with me and for me.
Take off your masks today. Reveal yourself to God, because He already knows. Sometimes I have youth ask me how to pray. I tell them to talk to God the way they talk to me. He loves you and you know what---He likes you too!!! You are exactly what He needs you to be to fulfill the plan He has for you. He wants you to bring your brokenness to Him…He wants you to bring your dreams to Him….He wants you to bring it all to Him so that He can begin to mold the broken clay into His work of art. Not what you want yourself to be, but what He designed you to be.
As “The Real Me” by Natalie Grant states…..wonderful, beautiful is what you see when you look at me…..you’re turning the tattered fabric of my life into the perfect tapestry….
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