"...Your intimate knowledge of about even your friends and family members is usually far less than you realize. Most of us have very few relationships that break the surface" --Robert Jones, Uprooting Anger Page 140.
Now I know this is a provacative statement that is meant for us all to sit up and think about how many people actually know our hearts? How many people know what is tempting you to sin today? How many people know what you are fearing today? How many people know what you are hoping in today? Oh, so many questions could be linked to these few. Does even your spouse know what is really happening, or simmering, or blooming in your heart? I want to challenge all of you to be transparent! Not on the internet alone (especially since that is what we are using as a medium right now), talk to the people around you and say something that is of deep importance to your own heart. No more "how are you's" just simply pricking the surface! Ask and answer questions that will draw you into community with other believers that will make you more real, more relatable. How can you pray for someone else in a manner that will true change you or them, unless you allow your heart to be probed and also engage in probing others hearts. It is of vast importance that we take the great risk of opening our hearts to one another.
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