Living Fully Known
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As we are called to the light, we are called to be fully known. Many of us shudder at the thought of complete, total vulnerability, and fall subject to the lie that we could never be fully loved if someone saw all of us. Today we’ll explore why being fully known before God is so important and life-giving. May you walk away today free from shame and fear after having faced a holy God vulnerably and having encountered his unconditional love.
Our Scripture for today comes from Luke 8:17, and today's worship is You Know Me by Steffany Gretzinger.
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| 0:00.0 | As we are called to the light, we are called to be fully known. |
| 0:09.8 | Many of us shudder at the thought of complete total vulnerability and fall subject to the |
| 0:15.2 | lie that we could never be fully loved if someone saw all of us. |
| 0:20.6 | Today we'll explore why being fully known |
| 0:23.0 | before God is so important in life-giving. May you walk away today free from shame and fear |
| 0:29.7 | after having faced a holy God, vulnerably, and having encountered his unconditional love. Welcome to |
| 0:36.5 | the First 15 podcast. To live in secrecy before |
| 0:42.4 | God, man, and yourself is to live in darkness. We are made to be fully known. We're made to be |
| 0:48.3 | open and vulnerable. It's only in the place of living fully known that we can truly receive the depths of God's love for us. It's only in the place of living fully known that we can truly receive the depths of God's |
| 0:56.1 | love for us. |
| 0:57.5 | It's only in being fully known that we discover who we really are and the immensity |
| 1:02.9 | of our need for God. |
| 1:04.7 | Our culture values perception above reality. |
| 1:07.4 | We work tirelessly to create an image of perfection in the minds of others that requires |
| 1:12.7 | a consistent covering up of who we truly are. We work to build up a facade, a false outer shell, |
| 1:19.6 | in attempts to keep in darkness, that which we fear will cause rejection. But the greater our facade, |
| 1:27.2 | the less we are truly loved. When someone |
| 1:29.8 | loves an image we've created that we know isn't truly us, we can't receive that love. When someone |
| 1:36.4 | compliments the image of perfection we've worked to create, we're all the time thinking, |
| 1:41.5 | if you knew who I really was, you wouldn't be saying those |
| 1:44.9 | things. |
| 1:45.8 | To be fully loved is to be fully known. |
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