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I keep hearing this word.
Bare. To me it means to lay open,
to expose something, to get to see inside.
Sometimes I just want to bare it all on the inside, the pain, the passion,
the grief, the excitement. But if all
that emotion overwhelms me, what will it do to others?
Sometimes I feel like Elijah who has just seen the fire
fall, and later is like, "Lord, just let me die."(1 Kings 19:1-12) Other times I feel close to God like David,
and in the next breath am uttering his same words, "Why are you downcast
oh my soul?" (Psalm 42:5) I also feel like Peter
a lot who was physically with the Lord for 3 years, and in the garden, cut the
soldier's ear off, anger blazing within. (John 18:10) But in the next moment, I am running on the beach, toward the Lord, and
when He asks me, "Do you love me?", my heart melts and my reply is
"Yes Lord!"(John 21:15-17)
As a believer, my faith is supposed to be laid bare, but
what about the rest? Is it to remain
hidden? Can we as people of faith not handle it all? I think not.
When we experience other's emotions laid bare, it makes us
uncomfortable, or like we/they are doing something wrong. What if, just what if, we looked up to God,
the maker of our souls in these times of bareness, for comfort, peace, and
direction as a small child would to a Father?
He is able to handle the bare.
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