Hill Country Thoughts - A Coffee Cup Ministry

Why are we afraid to be real, to be honest?

Why do we say “honest to God” when we really don’t mean it?

Being honest to God, means telling it like it is!

To admit that we have failed, that we have made mistakes. That we don’t know what to do and we wonder how can we get out of this or why are we in this place?

The last three years have been both good years and very rough years. They have been times of wonder, times of pain, times of hurt, times of hope, always hope, even when it was but a thread.

These where the times I said, “Lord, why? How do I handle this? How do I deal with this, where did the last thirty years of my life go? Why was my life stripped of everything, of all that was special to me and part of my life? This is not where I expected to be in my latter years.”

It was also during this time, that the enemy of our soul, fulfilled his role well as the accuser, pointing out all the mistakes, all the area’s where I had fallen short!

But at the same time, the Lord began to show me the why of it!

As I look back, I can see now, that as I began to focus more on the Lord, that I began to understand that in going through this, that I was learning to know my Father, my Lord, in a more personal and intimate relationship.

Learning to be real, honest and open, talking to Him, as a child would talk to His Father. To truly learn to love with His love, to see with His eyes. He has given me that which was so needed in my life, a heart that has become pliable in His hands.

He is teaching me to write from the heart, to be honest with Him, to be honest to God, to people, to friends, focusing on others and not myself.

Let us be honest, open and real to the Lord, so that He can finish that which He has begun in us.

He will take that stony heart, that has been broken, that is going through the dark nights of the soul, the stormy nights and the why’s of life, that heart that calls out to Him, that heart which held back, afraid to let go.

That heart, He will touch and soften, making it pliable in His hands, teaching us to be honest, open and real with Him and with others, as we share out of that which has become real, part of our life, that out of the ashes, out of what looks like defeat and failure and use it to touch the lives of others because it is a reality and not a theory in our lives.

Let’s be honest to God!

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