Wanna know why you’re down? Wanna know why you feel ‘far away from God’ these days? Well, I’m gonna take a stab at it, and for a bunch of you folks out there reading, I’m gonna hit the nail on the head. Ready? The reason you’re so down and feel far away from God right now is that you are far away from Him. You see, some of you are carrying around secrets like you’re some kind of top-level government operative. You’ve got past sins and present struggles that follow you around like an oily, dark cloud and you don’t talk to anyone about them. You’re so ashamed, you don’t even talk to God about them. Of course, when you’ve done the sin, maybe you hang your head and tell Jesus you’re sorry and hope against hope that the cross covers this old sin the 50 millionth time around, but that’s not what I mean about talking to God about your struggle and sin. What I’m saying is that you’re far away from the Lord because you’re shutting Him out of your day-to-day life because it has temptation, struggle and wrong in it. Jesus wants to be close - like a best friend. He wants to be in on everything! We think we can’t talk to Him about the process leading up to our sin because He’d be so mad, but dang! He already knows everything anyway! Why not just include Him in the whole thing? One time a woman tried to wriggle out of telling Jesus her whole story and He brought it out anyway. I always imagine Him giggling. He already knows. He loves you anyway. Just bring Him right on in. It just might change everything.
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