Let down your guard

Let down your guard. This is quite an interesting thought. When we let down our guard, we are open to receive what comes. Yet, when it comes to God we holdfast to our guard, we become impenetrable. We are more willing to let down own guard for people, than for God. But when we let down our guard for God, we can do this…James 5:16 -Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. (MSG) Yeah, that is right we are able to live whole and healed, and become a formidable power to consider.who would not want to do that.. However, when we are more willing to release our guard to man, than to God, not so much power or whole healed life for us. See, it is really not a mystery why we have so much strife, chaos, or stress in our life. We have become vulnerable to man as we seek their approval, their love, their camaraderie, and meet their expectations. It is nothing wrong with this, other than we have gotten the order wrong, so the outcome is skewed. Our focus is releasing and getting man’s approval, then God. Not quite the blessed way to do it. We are disappointed over and over again, because man is subject to their emotional compass which is temperamental at best. They are covered with the experiential understanding based on a fear-factor perspective resulting from years of unforgiveness and impatience because of the repetitive nature of our behavior. This gives an outcome of disagreements and intolerance. But in the bible it states -Isa. 40:28-Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired, His understanding is inscrutable (unfathomable). (NASB) Which means he endures all, patiently working with us to get through, and reminds loving to us until we get it right. Letting down our guard open doors to riches, to peace, and to sweet release, when it in the will of the Lord we settle in a refreshing faith. That even when we do not see the end, we know we are in good hands and go, we let go...