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Intimacy With God
Mat 26:36 Then cometh Jesus
with them unto a place called
Gethsemane, and saith unto the
disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and
pray yonder.
Mat 26:37 And he took with
him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee,
and began to be sorrowful and very
heavy.
Transparency is an
oft-overlooked element in our growing
closer to Jesus Christ. Intimacy with the
Lord requires our full, humble, and honest
openness before Him.
Jesus Himself was a
wonderful model of openness as He dealt
with His disciples. For instance, we read
in today’s Bible verse that, in the Garden
of Gethsemane, Jesus shared with the
disciples His anguish over His upcoming
crucifixion and brief separation from God
the Father.
Knowing that the sins of
the entire world were about to be cast
upon Him, Jesus grieved, even to point of
near death. Here was God, clothed in human
flesh, being completely honest, open, and
forthright about His emotions. This is how
Christ would have us react to Him.
A proud, arrogant,
egotistical, self-sufficient Christianity
bristles at the thought of such
transparency. Why should I burden God
with this when I can handle it myself? I’m
just not going to deal with God about
this. Such thinking and behavior goes
against everything for which God created
us.
However, God cherishes
and honors a humble, contrite spirit from
someone trying to be himself or herself
before the Lord. Confess sin, worry,
doubt, and fear. He already knows all, but
your willingness to intimately share with
Him all the details speaks volumes about
the bent of your heart
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