This is a good word from Helen Kraemer about getting “real” with God. Do you ever feel like you need to keep up appearances with God? Sounds silly, but it is an impulse I have to push aside sometimes. In reality, I can only get free of the stuff I drag out into the open with Jesus! Enjoy this word!
“God is taking you to a place of deeper intimacy. It’s a place one goes to when there is no other way to express the inner pain but a scream, protest, tears, or yelling. It’s a place of unveiled honesty and vulnerability where you remove the veil of presenting yourself to Him according to what you think is righteousness. He values your honest self and finds you beautiful without the veil.
God is taking you to a place of deeper trust. It’s a place of honesty of emotions before Him, knowing that they are from the dust He made you of, but trusting in the Hands that made you as you are now. It’s a place of vulnerability and softness, that you take no further care in your design pleasing Him but that you yourself ask to be heard for the beauty that resides in you both.
God is taking you to a deeper place of love. It’s a place of perceiving in your heart that your words and desires have meaning to God. It’s a place of not borrowing the power of other’s words, even if they are holy scripture, but of sharing unashamedly what is you. It’s a deep, deep place of life-shattering vulnerability, for you will put your eternity in the same hands that can condemn you for what you condemn yourself for as being unworthy. But it’s a place with a different standard than you now know, a deeper place of love. And it will take you deeper in righteousness, deeper in knowledge of His holy ways, deeper in all things.
God is taking you to a place of fear; the fear of being rejected by Him for your weakness. The very thing that seems would seal you into eternal separation from One so Holy is that same thing He is taking you into, and it is vulnerability to Him. This is the wedding ring He sets upon your finger today, and with it a promise. He promises to be Himself, and always Himself, and never somebody other than Himself. ” Amen
After I got this word I thought about how feminine the symbolism in it is. The Lord interrupted my thoughts then, telling me that I am beginning to see the heart of David that He treasured. I was reminded of the Psalms and how I had thought some of the things David wrote were boarderline, or wrong to say to God. But I am also reminded that in those moments of honesty with God when I’m telling the Lord how I see things He is faithful to let me know how He sees things, and gentle in restoring me. Surely, salvation is from God. Amen.
