Truth.
What do we really want? What are we willing to do to get it?
If you saw me this morning—church clothes, fixed hair, Bible in hand, you might have thought, “Wow, she’s got it together.” And I would let you think that. Nobody wants to hear our fears and pains and doubts during worship. The farther I run away from the truth of who I am, though, the farther I am from the loving embrace of my Heavenly Father.
So, if you saw me this morning, the woman you really saw can’t stop thinking about the mass the radiologist flagged on her breast sonogram and the appointment she has with the surgeon. You saw a woman who may be facing her second bout with crippling anxiety that is only controlled with medication, even after hours of prayer and meditation on Scripture. You saw a woman who struggles with trusting God and His plan for her.
There—truth. What was hiding behind your smile this morning? As ugly as all the stuff we try to deny about ourselves is, it is that woman the Lord longs to be with. The perfect church lady doesn’t need Him. He wants the broken, desperate woman who knows she has nowhere else to go to be safe and whole but the arms of her Savior.
Do we want that relationship where we can be cradled in His perfect, strong, loving arms? Are we willing to leave the pretense behind and run toward the Lord like a crazy, starving woman?
Angela Thomas encourages us to live in the truth of who we are and experience the comfort that comes from letting go off our phony self-dependence and clawing our way to the One who calls us to come just as we are.
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