No More Masks

I was once at a place where I hid myself from others I even hid myself from God. It is interesting because looking back I had no idea what I was doing. To me, I was hiding who I really was from people so that they couldn't hurt me. In my mind, the only way to protect myself, was to build these walls. These walls soon became masks that I couldn't take off. The walls blocked not only people from coming in, but God from working on me.
We sing the song Brokenness is what we long for, Brokenness is what we need but do we have a clue what this brokenness is? I didn't until it happened to me. Until I arrived at a point where I could do nothing but cry. Fall on my face and be naked and unashamed before God. Until I came to the place of complete surrender. Until I became vulnerable to life and others, trusting them with who I really was. I am in no way saying that people didn't hurt me when I did, but God was able to heal. I thank God for the opportunity to be broken before Him. I thank God for healing me, I thank God for rebuilding the correct mindsets. I praise him that now, I have no more mask.
It is really difficult to be vulnerable to human beings. Mainly because,lets face it, we are human beings. But God isn't. He is the only one we can confide in and be 100% sure that He gets us. We can lay our all at the alter. Our everything. Vulnerable and broken before Him and watch him heal!