Keepin' it real.

Last week in my Friday home meeting it seemed the fellowship and sharing camped out on the matter of 'keeping it real" with the Lord. Learning to be honest with where we are at, not shying away from how we are feeling and our present condition with Him. All in all, we are finding that the Lord really honors our honesty and that some how it's more direct way to letting Him into our weak and sick condition. Keeping it real is exposing, it's true. We have to own that in ourselves we are not... but this saves us from pretense and allows us to be touched by Him. Of course this is not merely a monologue with the Lord, but as we remain in His presence, His shining actually warms us up and in the end somehow we find that we actually do love Him. Through the fellowship I think we determined that it's because we are infused with Him as love and aren't putting any confidence in ourselves to love Him apart from Him. So we just go on, learning more and more what it means to keep it real with Him. :)