Stepping Stones: Be Real With Yourself

Transformational Tip
Get real! That college is out of your league. Be real! That girl is way to pretty for you. Get real! You’re never play on that team, get that part, make that band, get that job. How many times have we heard these expressions? How many times have we used them ourselves? It was hard for me, for so many years, to see who I really was. Why is this so hard to do? Why is it so hard to face ourselves? One reason…The enemy, Satan, likes it this way. The enemy tries to plant seeds of deceptions, pain, sinfulness…of self hate instead of acceptance of God’s love for us. Another reason…it’s painful for us to see who we really are. It was for me. It was a lot easier to think I was important, talented, bright, nice, blah, blah, blah… than to see my insecurities, inadequacies, and needs, let alone address them. The best way for us to face ourselves…to be real with ourselves…is to remember, as Christians, we are constantly clothed in Jesus’ robe of righteousness. God knows exactly what sins, weaknesses, and blemishes we try to hide underneath that faultless garment of salvation that covers and erases all. And He rejoices over you with singing…just imagine that…God singing over you!

Today, know that your Lord and God longs for you to trust Him enough to be fully yourself with Him. Being real with Your God, you are allowing him to bring out the very best in you. Pray to Him about one thing you have never really opened up to Him about. Let light into that area of your life…this pushes the darkness out. Click here to share with the Stepping Stones community your thoughts of being real with God.

Prayer
Dear Father God, I want to grow the gifts that you planted in my soul. I want to be real with You Lord, but this is a painful experience for me because this means I first have to be real with myself. It seems easier for me to ignore how I’m feeling rather than face my misery head on. I pray, Father, that You help me stop numbing my discomfort, or negative feelings, with my sinful diversions. Give me the courage Father to face myself so that I can be real with You. Thank You, Father. I pray in the name of the one who died so I could be real in Your presence, Jesus Christ; and all God’s children said - AMEN!

The Truth
I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness…
Isaiah 61:10
The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and, Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 10:27