Transparency

Recently I've been learning a lot about transparency. During the last 6 weeks (as stated in my previous blog) I dealt with a lot of weakness and confusion internally. What I realized during this season is that without the body of Christ, I would have crumbled. I believe the Lord put me in this state to make me learn to be dependent on Him and on others as well. So often we always try to do this alone. When people ask us how we are, we too often respond "Good", without thinking twice about it. Truth is, we aren't always "good" 24/7. I'm sure not. As people we always tend to conform and portray a certain image of ourselves so that people might perceive us a certain way. It's part of the fleshly nature. However, I believe God is really teaching me to be honest. To be honest with others when I'm completely broken, completely frustrated, completely desperate for help. Granted, you take a risk there when you become vulnerable..however the feeling of being truthful and knowing that there is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus (Romans 8)is so freeing.

We are all essentially the same inside. We are all longing for acceptance, security, and happiness. We are always looking for the next thing that can fulfill and satisfy us. Only Jesus Christ can give us full acceptance, security, joy (which is a thankful heart in happy and even in sad times, fulfillment and satisfaction. Because of this truth, I am able to be free and share with you all that I am still at times very broken, I don't have it all figured it out, I do care how you think sometimes, but it's so reassuring that I have no ability to change any of these things about me..but that it's only through the dependence on my Savior and the power of the Holy Spirit, that God can make me more into the likeness of His son.

So brothers and sisters, may I encourage you to embark on this journey with me of being honest with one another, so that we can continue to grow individually and as a body, so we can be used by Him even more.

I really enjoy this next passage in Ephesians which summarizes and conveys better the point I'm trying to aim at. That if we as the body speaks the truth in love and continue to be honest with one another, we can grow more in unity and become mature together. I'm so glad Scripture OWNS! hahah


Ephesians 4:11-16

11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.