Honest to God

Until reading Brueggemann, I never considered such levels of honesty as “an act of bold faith” – rather, the opposite. But I certainly do now. When he writes about the gut – wrenchingly honest prayers we find in the Psalms, he says,
It is an act of boldness on the one hand, because it insists that the world must be experienced as it really is and not in some pretended way. On the other hand, it is bold because it insists that all such experiences of disorder are a proper subject for discourse with God. There is nothing out of bounds, nothing precluded or inappropriate. Everything properly belongs in this conversation of the heart. To withhold parts of life from the conversation is in fact to withhold part of life from the sovereignty of God. Thus these Psalms make the important connection: everything must be brought to speech, and everything brought to speech must be addressed to God, who is the final reference for all of life
If we are to live in close proximity to Jesus, how can we open ourselves up to his presence in the hidden, remote areas? As the apostle Paul said, how might we “take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ“ (2 Cor. 10:5)
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