Can I Be Transparent With You? 1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. Transparent is defined as to see-through, clear, sheer. John 11:35 “Jesus wept”. We know, that Jesus knew and even a had a plan in allowing Lazarus to die. So why does He cry? He cries because He sees the sisters, the other family and friends’ hurt and pain and also because Lazarus was His friend too. Jesus allows Himself to be vulnerable by allowing the people there to see what was really going on in His heart. He was hurting and He was grieving the loss of His friend. Did Jesus have to do that? I don’t think so but He chose to and this He modeled what it means to be transparent. I come by this morning to let you know when folks share with you their stumbles; when they share with you that they’re nothing but frailty and feebleness; and share with you that they are nothing without God. It drives you to say, “Wait a minute! God gave this to them? God brought them through this? If this is true, I know that there is hope for me. Hallelujah!!! The question is, Can I be transparent with you? We are NOTHING without God. Everything we have belongs to Him. Thank you Jesus!!! It’s easy to pretend that life is easy. That nothing is wrong, that you have it all together. This opaqueness is a plague among people today. Being transparent has to start with the people with whom you are closest with. If you are married, that would be your spouse. If you are not married that would be with a close friend. If we can’t be transparent with the person closest to us then we will never be transparent with anybody! Transparency can include sharing our hurts, pains and grief’s, transparency can include sharing those deep longings of our heart with others and transparency can include sharing our struggles with others. Can I Be Transparent With You? Be blessed and I love you!!! JE
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 11:08:16 +0000
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