JUST WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
For most people it means letting something be known about themselves that was before a secret. Just being willing to show and tell is not the point in Truefaced Experience. Being able to accept forgiveness , grace and gifts of repentance for the thing you were hiding, this is the goal. However, it is possible to get hung up in the process. That is why it is good to be in a group or at least to have some loving support from other believers. Just in case you get hung up.
The process of determining just what kind of hiding styles you use the most are really your masks. These are talked about more in the book Hiding From Love by Dr.John Townsend. To explore these styles with others would also be helpful. Loving others that is. Not people who will put you down and say things like, "You're a Christian. Don't do that." If you can finally find someone who realizes that hiding styles are what we humans are about and won't be critical of you while you try to stop using them............
Consider yourself blessed of the LORD ! Truly. This is what has happened. The LORD has heard your cries and answered your prayers.
Most of us don't mind if you confess your sin to us, but please stop sinning now. I have found the exhortation on the earlier blog to be very convicting. Also I have found it to be the very answer I have sought. YOU CAN NOT COPY THIS is exactly true. Unless our heavenly Father, (in whatever way He chooses)reveals to you , who that brother or sister in Christ really is, we have a copy of what the church is suppose to be.
On the other hand if we seek Him until we find Him, (as the scriptures encourage us to do) and then ask Him, "please, Who do You say this person is here, who just confessed this sin to me." Or maybe you want to say ," this person who is sinning but doesn't seem to be aware of it." When the LORD God Almighty answers that question, you have everything .
Before you have your fleshly attempt to "do as Jesus would" after your prayer is answered, you have the divine ability "to do as Jesus does" . However , you don't take credit for it. NO NO NO NO . What did you do? You just asked. Why did you ask ? Because the Holy Spirit revealed to you the secret of the church. So you know you did not do anything.
Except be willing to let it happen. If any of you have come this far with me, you know we can not take credit for that. This whole work began because of HIM and it will only continue because of HIM and there really isn't anything we can take credit for.
So taking off the mask, not using a hiding style, any more what does that mean ? It means what you were before you hid, that is what you are now.
However, as we go through the book of Truefaced Experience we see there is forgiveness, grace and gifts of repentance waiting for us, if we will only enter the room called trusting God. It makes taking off the mask a little easier. However, you will have to trust God. You may not be surrounded by people who will accept you like you are.
God will though. You may have to look to His Word like you have never looked before. He will tell you there, He accepts you like you are. He may hear your cries and put it into someone's heart, this is who He says you are. Oh, how wonderful that would be. Just remember, the work He began and has been doing in you did not happen overnight, the thing He might do in your brothers heart towards you , may not happen over night either.
FOR ALL THE PRODIGAL SONS AND ELDER BROTHERS OUT THERE MAY I PROCLAIM : LET GOD BE TRUE AND EVERY MAN A LIAR. HE THAT HAS BEGUN A WORK IN YOU HE IS ABLE AND WILLING TO COMPLETE IT. FOR ALL HAVE COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD. YET IN HIS MERCY HE LOVED US AND REDEEMED US THAT ALL THE BENEFITS OF HIS SON MIGHT BE GRANTED UNTO US. WE WHO ARE NOT WORTHY TO TOUCH HIS SANDAL STRAP ARE GIVEN THE PLEASURES OF THE KINGDOM. LET US NOT HESITATE TO GIVE HIM OUR ALL. LET US NOT HOLD BACK IN UNBELIEF. LET US NOT HIDE OUR SINS FROM HIM ANYMORE. LET US TRUST HIM TO LOVE US AND GRANT US MERCY AND GRACE. HE IS THE KING. HE IS THE LORD. THERE IS NONE WHO CAN COMPARE TO HIS GREAT LOVE. HE HAS LOVED US SO MUCH THAT HE CHOSE TO REDEEM US AND NOTHING CAN TAKE THAT AWAY FROM US.
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