Stop hiding from the one who sees it all.

Frederick Buechner - an American writer and theologian as well as an inspiration source for many readers - once said, “What we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else.” Each one of us crave the freedom to be who we understand ourselves to be in front of everyone we meet, and then have them accept us without judgment. This longing for a natural and honest relationship is no different for Christians when it comes to our relationship with Christ. Then why is it when we desire and long for these open and honest relationships do we push them away? We spend so much time and energy on hiding away our struggles and our failures in order to keep up the charade of “perfect Christian or lifestyle” that we begin to live a life as a slave to the secrets that we have hiding away. Those secrets, the ones we think we are hiding from God (and maybe we are hiding from others) can ruin our relationship with Christ.

Freedom can only come by going to God and unloading our secrets to Him. He already knows every “secret” you have been hiding from Him but open it up to Him and show Him the dirty truth. After sharing with Him, share those same struggles and secrets with someone you can trust and whom will work through them with you. When we refuse to get real with those who love us, it is unloving to them and when we hide who we really are from those who are closest to us, it downplays our relationship with them.

As a Christian if we truly believe that Christ’s blood set us free from all the guilt and sin, then why do we hang on and bury all these secrets filled with failures and struggles? Let them go, give them to God. As His child, He has forgiven you; now begin the process to forgive yourself. “Our security and identity are found, not in our ability to hide our shame, but in God’s unconditional mercy.” –Josh Shook

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