Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord. – Lamentations 3:40

I took a course in seminary and the professor told us that we could ask him anything we wanted, that his life was an open book. He would answer any question about anything. I didn’t believe him, but as the semester went on, I witnessed transparency in this man unlike anything I’d ever witnessed before.

It can be difficult to be real and open and honest, but if I want to continue growing and learning and being open to the awesome things God is doing, I have to at all costs keep myself accountable and let others know exactly where I am, what I’m feeling, what I’m concerned about; in short, just where I am emotionally.

When I don’t do that, that’s where the journey into isolation begins for me, and I head off into an unhealthy emotional state.

I want to be honest and exhibit integrity at all times. I want to be someone that others can trust and turn to knowing there will be no judgment. And I want others to come to me in the same way.

What keeps us from this transparency in life? I know one thing that hinders transparency is pride. Satan has used this since Adam and Eve to put a wedge between man and God. That’s why we have to put on the whole armor of God.

Our battles are spiritual. Don’t let pride get in the way of God’s call for you to live a transparent life.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen. – Theophile Gautier

Blessings,

Chaplin Rob