A
thought by Kyle Idleman, (2015-10-01) from his book, The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins (Kindle
Locations 1097-1098). David C. Cook. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title of the book
to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)
What Kyle is
talking about here is prayer and his whole thought is, “God simply wants us to
talk with him. Talk is simple communication, and it doesn’t need to be dressed
up.”
Earlier he
said, “Jesus saw things differently. He said that when we talk to God, we
simply need to be who we are— to be authentic and to talk to him as we would
talk to someone we love.”
But that can
be so difficult for us. Kyle says, “Many
of us have struck spiritual poses in our prayers. We have a hard time being
ourselves. Praying before others, we have a tendency to talk more to the people
in the room than to God. Even in private prayer, sincerity doesn’t come easily.
We talk to God as if he requires formal language, as we would talk to some
governmental authority we didn’t know well. Or we speak in a kind of fake
biblical language we’ve cobbled together from the Scriptures or other
embellished prayers we’ve heard. Prayer becomes a performance, and we have to
work at it.”
And that is
so true. But as Kyle says, “We should
talk to him as we’d talk to a best friend— simply being ourselves, being
totally honest without worrying how it might sound.”
God wants us
to be authentic, to be real, to be pure and we will be blessed if we are. Jesus said in Matthew 5:8, “Blessed are the
pure in heart, for they will see God.”
He wants us
to be real, especially when we come to him.
He knows who we really are. So
let’s not blow it by trying to fake it.
So is it
real of fake?
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