Honesty Before God
First15 Devotional
First15
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
God’s goodness over our lives far exceeds anything we’ve experienced. We’ve only yet splashed around in the shallows of God’s deep love and mercy. In order to dive deeper into the fullness of life available to us, we must learn how to posture our hearts. May your relationship with God be enriched this week as you position yourself to receive all your loving heavenly Father has to give.
Our Scripture for today comes from Hebrews 4:13, and today's worship is If I'm Honest by Megan Brown.
________
Do you ever feel like life just happens to you?
Instead of choosing the things that fill your day, does life always somehow sweep you up into its endless flow of expectations and obligations?
If so, there’s a better way! It’s called a Rule of Life, and Craig Denison has written a new book about creating your own Rule of Life called Living Intentionally. We’d love to put a copy in your hands to say thanks for your donation to help more people experience God the first 15 minutes of their day.
_____
First15 is a daily devotional written and recorded by Craig Denison. If you would like to learn more about the First15 app, books, blogs, videos and our other resources, please visit first15.org. You can always reach out to us on our contact page on the website.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | God's goodness over our lives far exceeds anything we've experienced. |
| 0:09.0 | We've only yet splashed around in the shallows of God's deep love and mercy. |
| 0:14.0 | In order to dive deeper into the fullness of life available to us, we must learn how to posture our hearts. May your relationship with |
| 0:22.6 | God be enriched this week as you position yourself to receive all your loving Heavenly Father |
| 0:28.7 | has to give. Welcome to the first of team podcast. Our verse of today comes from Hebrews 4, verse 13. |
| 0:53.3 | Scripture says, and no creature is hidden from his sight. Our verse of today comes from Hebrews 4, verse 13. |
| 0:55.4 | Scripture says, |
| 0:58.2 | And no creature is hidden from his sight, |
| 1:03.7 | but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give a count. |
| 1:10.7 | I've spent countless exhausting hours in my fleeting life, working to portray myself as a person |
| 1:13.6 | I know I'm not. Whether in relationships with friends, family, my spouse, or God, I find myself |
| 1:21.6 | consistently creating a facade for myself that I hope others will like better than who I actually am. |
| 1:29.5 | I feared that if I truly opened myself up to others and got rejected, that I would have |
| 1:35.0 | nothing left. If I'm fully myself, will I be enough? Hebrews 413 says, and no creature is hidden from his sight, |
| 1:46.0 | but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. |
| 1:52.1 | Scriptures like this one used to seriously frighten me. |
| 1:56.2 | The idea that an all-powerful, all-knowing, and perfectly holy God |
| 2:00.7 | knew everything I had ever done was too invasive for me. |
| 2:05.6 | If I couldn't even muster up the courage to truly be myself to man, how could I handle being naked and exposed to my Heavenly Father? |
| 2:15.6 | It wasn't until I began experiencing the powerful, overwhelming love of my Heavenly Father. It wasn't until I began experiencing the powerful, overwhelming love of my Heavenly Father |
| 2:21.3 | that these frail, false constructions began to fall apart brick by brick, lie after lie. |
| 2:29.3 | The process God takes us through in unveiling our hearts |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from First15, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of First15 and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.