Get Real!

"Oh great Father who abideth in heaven. We approach thee today to appeal thee. That thee would pour out your vast riches upon thine lowly people..." Hold it, CUT! Who the heck talks like that? Nobody does. We left that kind of speech behind a looong time ago. How would you react if someone came up to you and started talking like that? "Salutations, Eden, how art thou today? How goeth your homework? Wouldst thought like to join me for supper in the evening?" You would be confused and wonder what happened to your friend, because that's not normal. Yet, sometimes, we think we need to talk to God like that. We think that in order to approach God we need to be formal about it. We act as if we don't know Him.

I was talking to God the other day and I decided to really scale it back. Instead of praying the usual, "God, lookout for family and my best friend..." And launching into my everyday formal prayer, I decided to try something different. I started with "God, do you love me?" I technically knew the answer to that question, but I wanted to hear Him say it. I had been having a hard time believing it and I wanted Him to confirm His love for me. He responded, "Of course I do, baby girl. I love you so much." I launched into conversation with Him, asking questions and just... talking to Him. Seriously, just talking to Him, exactly how I would talk with my best friend. At the end, I did pray for my family, but it sounded more like this, "You've got them, right God?" There's something special about just being real with God. Just conversing with Him and being real. Not addressing Him in this extremely complicated way of speaking that we would never use anywhere else.

He really just wants us to GET REAl!