I recently wrote a post on how I like to journal (read it here).

In the post I mentioned being vulnerable before God.

Sometimes, we try to hold back and not talk to God about certain things.

Things we’re ashamed of, embarrassed by, hurt from.

Here’s the thing. – God already knows about it!

Because God is all seeing and all knowing (omniscient), He knows absolutely everything about everyone and everything already.

There are no thoughts we can think that He doesn’t hear.

There is nothing we can do He doesn’t see.

So, when we try to hold things back from Him we are only fooling ourselves.

Not only that, all these things we keep holding back from Him are the very things He wants us to bring to Him.

Bringing ourselves before the Lord and laying our hearts open can be scary.

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