5.1 Bring Christ Into Your Dark Places

[Lorna Anne]

Consider again the question Sean asked at the start of this lesson: do you feel the need to wear a mask or veil when you come to God? If you do, why? If you did but don't anymore, what changed? How has the topic been helping you see the areas that you can bring into the light? What would it look like if you did just that?

Reflect on these questions to whatever level you feel comfortable.

I don't need to wear a mask or veil when I come to God because God doesn't look on the outside, he look on the inside. He knows my name. He even know even when I am in my mothers womb.

In the darkness of my life, I let Jesus shine through me. When I have struggle in my life and ministry, I come to God for help.

My prayer tonight that God will creat a new heart for me day by day so I won't get distracted.

[Abayomi]

I dont need to wear a mask or veil when i come to God. For He says come unto Me just as you are , no facade, no fears.

God cleans up and repairs what is messy, dark, and broken in our lives.

Furthermore, the Light of Jesus shines ever so brightly into the darkest places of our lives to give us Victory.

[Kaela]

I think I bring things to God but don’t quite give the openness to change fully, even if I say I want to. I feel like I let Him know about the mess and let Him leave it there and think that’s probably good enough, but it’s not. I need to let Him clean it up, to prune me, to shape me how he wants me to be.

[Ronadette]

I don’t need to wear a mask anymore, because God is reassuring me that His love and grace will not depend on what I do for Him, what I believe and what I have, but it is all about who He is and what He did and will continually do for me not because of who I am but because of who He is, His unconditional love and immeasurable grace.

[ECO]

@RLumasag Awesome. It is so freeing when we feel wholly disinhibited in God’s presence. This is something that Tim Keller calls “The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness,” and it reminds me of how the apostles were thought to be drunk on the day of Pentecost. Of course, they weren’t, but just as drunk people don’t feel the need to perform or put on a mask, they were entirely in God’s presence while with others because of the power of the Holy Spirit.