Getting REAL!

Do you desire a relationship with someone that knows you?  I mean REALLY knows you!  Are you frustrated with the battle of trying to get your point across and your views and opinions heard?  Have you proven your case only to be misunderstood and looked over? 

Oh my, I have been there too.  Years ago, feeling like I just couldn’t trust, couldn’t depend, couldn’t find a relationship that I could be ME.  That in turn caused me to turn inward and become someone I was not!!

Isn’t it funny how we will put a defensive wall up because of fear!?!?  We will try to change the VERY CORE of who we are so that we will not get hurt!!  When the truth is ….we hurt ourselves more.

Wasted time!  Wasted seconds, minutes, days, weeks……..YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can I tell you something?  I have FOUND that relationship!  I have found the ONE that allows me to be ME AND gives me the FREEDOM to be ME with others!!!  Now, you may say “here we go, getting all spiritual again” or “yeah, yeah, but I need a REAL one”….OR you may even stop reading at this point because you feel you can’t relate…..PLEASE don’t…..

Let me challenge you!  SERIOUSLY!  You have tried everything else….RIGHT?  So why not?  God sees YOU!  He KNOWS you!  HE UNDERSTANDS YOU!  

A few years ago I finally sat down and got REAL with Him.  There were times it wasn’t pretty…I yelled….I cried….I was angry…and then…..all of a sudden…I laughed….I opened my mind to allow myself to speak out loud in a room that was empty of “tangible” people (no matter how CRAZY I FELT) to someone that has been there MY ENTIRE LIFE!  I was HONEST with Him and this conversation is a continual one that occurs throughout every day.  I sense Him there at times while others I don’t however I KNOW that He is there!  How? Because I TRUST HIM!  I have taken advice from so MANY PEOPLE in my life.  Some was great…other’s….well not so much!  HOWEVER, EVERY time I have taken the guidance of His word and done what He said to do….GUESS WHAT? – IT WORKED!!!  Every time!  That’s 100% people!!!!   So…….

TRY IT!!!!  Just get into a room – CLOSE the door! – (even if it’s at your office and you have to go to the bathroom to do it!) and START!  You can even say “ok…I am here, now what?”  that simple statement can open the door to the possibilities of a REAL relationship with Jesus!  One that other’s CAN’T put words to the description because it’s one ONLY between YOU and Him!  Like I said…..you’ve tried everything else…why not!?!?!  He ALREADY knows YOUR HEART and your THOUGHTS….

Just do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!