My wife and I were talking last night about trying to fool God without knowing that we are doing it.
She is in a Bible study where a question prompted a response from her that went something like this “Sometimes I try to think of myself different than I am so that I can make God think I’m better than I am. I fool myself into feeling certain things so that I feel like a good person in God’s site.”
Isn’t interesting how typical this is? When we date our savior we don’t treat Him any different than those we dated when we were single. We get tied up trying to show him only the parts of us we want him to see.
God knows our hearts, he wants us to be real, not for His sake but for ours.
Psalms 32:5
Then I acknowledged my sin to you
and did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, I will confess
my transgressions to the LORD.
And you forgave
the guilt of my sin.
The thing that strikes me here are the last two lines. “You forgave the guilt of my sin”. God wants to free us of the imprisonment of the things we try to hide from Him.
Amazing…
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