I believe the Lord is urging us on to go deeper and more honestly with Him in all we are thinking, feeling and doing. As we encounter more of His love in this activity He is building a greater confidence in bringing everything to Him without fear of retaliation. By admitting everything to Him, we get insight and understanding from Him if we also stop to listen after opening ourselves to Him. If we are in full disclosure before Him, we can then begin deeper work.
There should be no holds barred in revealing it all to Him and bringing into regular discussion everything however broken, strange, obsessive, anxious, inaccurate, opinionated or twisted. Not a thing phases Him. He never tires of repetitive issues and confessions. He always listens. All openness with Him is precious because it’s intimate and it’s trust. Throwing ourselves before Him is an awesome thing to Him. He is the God of empathy and infinite understanding. Nothing can separate us from His love. There is no fear in love and there is no punishment.
When you open things to Him you never know what His answer will be, but it will always be loving, kind, edifying and comforting.
The benefits to full disclosure is about a paradigm shift because of the influx of light or the truth from the Lord as He demonstrates His care, His nature and imparts wisdom and understanding to you. The new you is revealed more and more. Here are some of things that happen or are revealed:
- Character Growth and maturity - Spiritual Armor - His love is our armor - Eph 6 - Equipped with love because we experience what it is. - We develop empathy and understanding because we are shown these. - We develop listening skills - We become less of a know it all and more of a listener - You become less rigid in your opinions and open to learning and hearing others point of view and receiving others who have opposite points of view. - Unity - community builder - Eph 4 - Diplomatic - Approachable - Your words become seasoned with grace - Col 4 - Less reactive - slow to speak, quick to hear and slow to anger - James 1 - Unflappable - being calm in crisis because you have peace - More broadly accepting of others. - Genuine love, friendship rather than perfunctory acceptance because you are more compassionate. - Illumination of scriptures - the Word will make more and more sense. - Discernment - seeing others more objectively rather than through judgments. - Self respect and self confidence because you know you are greatly loved. - Self control including the rest of the fruits of the Spirit in Galations 5 that include: love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness and gentleness.
The deeper you go with Him, the greater the revelation of His glory you experience. Jesus said that if you open the door, you both will dine with each other and have fellowship with each. We see each other face to face and you experience lasting transformation and victories.
I John 1:5-7 -This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
Eph 4: ...put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Heb 4:16 - Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
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