Honesty With God
One thing I love about scripture is the raw honesty you see from the individuals God calls such as, Jeremiah, David, Moses, Isaiah, and many others. I am specifically refering to how they say things to God when their lives are upside down with confusion, heart-ache, pain, and suffering. It is in those moments that they say things to God that almost scare most Christians today. When reading some of their replies you almost get the feeling that major discipline is coming from the heavens after they say those things. Listen to what the Psalmist said in Psalm 44:11-15 (NASB): 11 You give us as sheep to be eaten And have scattered us among the nations. 12 You sell Your people cheaply, And have not profited by their sale. 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to those around us. 14 You make us a byword among the nations, A laughingstock among the peoples. 15 All day long my dishonor is before me And my humiliation has overwhelmed me. Is this God we