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Seeking Him Week Three—Honesty: Silence Is Not Always Golden

6/15/2021

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Seeking Him Week Three--Honesty: Silence Is Not Always Golden
Welcome to our Summer 2021 Book Club-Style Bible Study! We are using the book Seeking Him by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth and Tim Grissom.

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Honesty: Silence Is Not Always Golden

Coming Into the Light
“Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.” (Proverbs 28:13)
I know I need to be revived, to be brought into more intimate fellowship with God, but I can’t get past the realization of my need to seek Him and to humble myself. There seems to be a wall there between me and God.
  • A wall when I try to pray.
  • A wall when I read God’s Word.
It is so dry, and I feel like I’m in the darkness. Saved, yet lost. Why?

Finding the answer requires a certain understanding of God.
“Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. He will receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. Such is the generation of those who seek Him…”  (Psalm 24:3-6)
God’s call to seek Him comes with the command to be honest.

Maybe you’ve heard it described as:
  • “Roof off. Walls down.”
  • Getting honest with God and others
  • Becoming transparent

We’ve all been there. Hiding, covering up, or even denying we have done wrong. Refusing to acknowledge the truth of what God says about our sin. Sin leads to silence.
David describes his own experience in Psalm 32.
“Blessed [happy] is the man against whom the LORD counts not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long….

I acknowledged my sin to You, and did not cover my iniquity; I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,’ and You forgave the iniquity of my sin.” (verses 2,3, and 5)
How did God respond when David was finally willing to uncover his sin? He forgave. Then came relief, joy, and happiness!
Silence keeps us guilty, but honesty is liberating.

So why do we choose to stay hidden in the darkness of our sinful past or even in the darkness of our present sin? Could the reason be:
  • Our pride and a lack of faith?
  • A fear of being judged by others?
​The reality is that many of our Christian brothers and sisters are struggling with similar sins. Who will be the first to come forward and admit their weakness—to lead the way to freedom, fullness, and the fruitfulness that comes from getting honest with God and others by confessing our sin?

Oh Father, how am I deceiving myself? Even the act of recognizing sin, acknowledging it, and forsaking it—this is beyond my ability. I need You to shine the light of Your Word onto my life. I need You to open my eyes. I am ready and willing, Lord, to be honest with You—to let the roof off and to take the walls down. I am ready and willing, Lord, to cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light! (Romans 13:12)
Julie
Let's ask God to shine the light of His Word onto our lives and open our eyes, and let's get honest with Him about our sin. How will you seek Him this week?

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Barbara Harper link
6/15/2021 09:33:53 am

It's so important not only to be in the Word of God every day, but to let it shine in all the nooks and crannies. Only as we're honest with Him can we confess our sins, be forgiven, and grow.

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Julie
6/15/2021 11:48:36 am

I love that truth, Barbara! His Word is not only a lamp to our feet and a light to our path, but is also is a light to reveal our motives, our secrets...our heart. "He reveals deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him." (Daniel 2:22)

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Michele Morin link
6/15/2021 12:27:02 pm

Thank you, Julie, for inviting us into the light!

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Julie
6/15/2021 01:02:34 pm

❤️

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Joanne Viola link
6/16/2021 07:48:40 am

"Let's ask God to shine the light of His Word onto our lives and open our eyes, and let's get honest with Him about our sin." We need Him more than ever in order to see ourselves clearly.

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Julie
6/16/2021 10:06:09 am

I agree, Joanne. I was reading this AM in the book of Acts about Cornelius. He was regularly seeking God in prayer. He feared God and his prayers were heard and God sent Peter, whose words were like a light that showed him truth. Our desire for God’s light to reveal sin and where we need to change is somewhat of a different circumstance than his, but if God heard the prayers of Cornelius, who was not even a child of God yet, how much more is His ear attentive to the cries of His children.

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Paula Short link
6/16/2021 12:05:04 pm

Wow, Amen Julie. Thank you for this powerful lesson. Blessings.
~Selah~

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Patsy Burnette link
6/22/2021 07:58:21 am

I am so enjoying going through this again, Paula—for the third time! God knows I need it! I say "enjoying..." but actually, there are some tough days when I read these and realize how much reviving this poor soul really needs! GRACE!

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Lauren Renee Sparks link
6/16/2021 06:13:03 pm

Been meditating a lot lately on the importance of speaking truth. To ourselves and others.

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Patsy Burnette link
6/22/2021 08:01:06 am

Speaking truth, to ourselves and others, is so much a part of our DNA as Christians, Lauren. Meditating on it is just as important. I'm so thankful for how Julie shares her heart with us as she opens God's Word desiring for us to walk closer to Him by the end of Summer 2021 than we did in the beginning!

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