an open and honest relationship with God

I learned something extremely valuable this past summer, something priceless in my relationship with God. What was it? The art of being open and honest with him. Sometime I may fill you in on the details, but for now let it be enough just to say that I was at perhaps the lowest, most confusing time of my life. Yet, as hard as it was, I would never ask for it to have not happened because of what was gained in my relationship with God. When you read the Psalms, you get a glimps of an individual who was so comfortable conversing with God that he was totally open and honest, expressing his heart's true feelings and thoughts. I hope the depth of that relationship is attractive to you, especially since openness and honesty are the bedrock of any relationship, including God. Basically, through my experiences, I learned to pour out my heart to God, telling him how I truly felt, even expressing my personal anger and frustration about him to him, and feeling free to ask any and all questions that I had. At one point in my life, I considered it disrespectful to say/ask such things. But what kind of a relationship would that be? It's certainly not what you find in the Psalms. So, I trusted God and his love for me and began opening myself up to him. Know what I discovered? A God who let me draw even closer simply because I allowed him into my life more! Learn to be absolutely open and honest with God. He already knows it all anyway, so you might as well benefit from the growth of relationship with him and spill it all out. You will be blessed when you do because you have a God who is waiting on you to do it! Yes, he loves you that much!