Tearing Down Walls
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In today’s devotional, we’re continuing our focus on honesty by looking at how we can tear down walls we’ve built up in God’s presence every day. There is true life in vulnerability. And if we can trust God to be our shield, living with openness and love towards him, ourselves, and others, we’ll experience a greater abundance of life than we thought was possible. Let’s come before God today with courage, trust, and humility.
Our Scripture for today comes from Acts 24:16, and today's worship is Come Closer by Hillsong Worship feat. Brooke Ligertwood.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's devotional, we're continuing our focus on honesty by looking at how we can tear down walls we've built up in God's presence every day. |
| 0:13.8 | There is true life and vulnerability, and if we can trust God to be our shield, living with openness and love towards him, |
| 0:22.4 | ourselves, and others, we'll experience a greater abundance of life than we thought was possible. |
| 0:29.3 | Let's come before God today with courage, trust, and humility. |
| 0:33.3 | Welcome to the first of teen podcast. |
| 0:59.4 | Our verse for today comes from Acts 24 verse 16, where scripture says, I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man. In order to protect our hearts from the pain and wounds of the world, |
| 1:09.6 | we both consciously and subconsciously build walls. |
| 1:14.3 | And these walls take all sorts of forms. |
| 1:18.3 | Some walls are built for appearance so that outward beauty covers up inward brokenness. |
| 1:24.7 | Some walls are built to be strong and tough, so that pride and strength cover up inward vulnerability |
| 1:31.5 | and self-consciousness. |
| 1:34.4 | Some walls are built in order to blend in so that people pass us by all together and never |
| 1:41.1 | try to know us. |
| 1:43.6 | Whatever wall we choose to build, one thing is for certain. |
| 1:48.1 | The walls might guard us from harm, |
| 1:50.4 | but they also keep us from ever experiencing true life. |
| 1:56.0 | Abundant life comes from being both fully known and then fully loved. |
| 2:04.2 | We can't experience the love of God and others if we don't allow ourselves to be known. We can't experience God's grace and affection for us |
| 2:11.9 | if we shield ourselves from him out of fear that he will see us and reject us. And whenever someone tries to love |
| 2:21.2 | us fully, we will always reject their love by saying, if you truly knew me, you wouldn't love me. |
| 2:29.7 | Living with walls up isn't really living, it's surviving. |
| 2:39.1 | But God knows our pains. He knows our wounds. |
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