Honesty before Man
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
As we continue to dive deeper into the fullness of life available to us, today we’ll explore what it means to live honestly before man. In a world of facades and striving, God wants to offer us freedom and confidence to be fully who he has made us to be. May you learn to value to honesty above all else in dealing with those around you and find joy and peace abundant.
Our Scripture for today comes from 2 Corinthians 8:21, and today's worship is Kyrie Eleison by Vineyard Worship.
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| 0:00.0 | As we continue to dive deeper into the fullness of life available to us, today |
| 0:09.8 | we'll explore what it means to live honestly before man. In a world of facades and |
| 0:15.2 | striving, God wants to offer us freedom and confidence to be fully who he has made |
| 0:21.0 | us to be. May you learn to value honesty above all else in dealing |
| 0:26.3 | with those around you and find joy and peace abundant. Welcome to the First |
| 0:31.9 | of Teen Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | The First 15 Podcast. The verse for today comes from 2 Corinthians 821. |
| 0:48.0 | Scripture says, |
| 0:50.0 | For we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's site, but also in the sight of man. |
| 0:57.0 | The world is right now in an identity crisis. |
| 1:04.0 | With the global rise of social media and the internet, |
| 1:07.0 | we cannot reject ourselves to the world as anything we want. |
| 1:11.0 | We've been given the option of only being partly known by countless people |
| 1:15.6 | rather than really known by a few. We can attempt to fill a gap in our souls |
| 1:21.1 | for love and relationship with the online world, rather than |
| 1:25.2 | being fully known in our strengths and weaknesses, our greatest faults and soaring successes. |
| 1:31.0 | We're in need of an awakening of honesty. |
| 1:37.4 | Having an honest heart before man is the only path to experiencing true liberation from the binding opinion of others. |
| 1:45.0 | When we work tirelessly to build up a false self so that we can receive affirmation from others, |
| 1:52.0 | we never truly experience a love. |
| 1:56.0 | For our false self to be loved is not truly love at all, because we constantly have the |
| 2:00.9 | thought, if they really knew me, they wouldn't love me. We have an |
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