"I don't know how to worship You, Lord."

Confessions like this are powerful and transforming. I haven't just confessed that I don't know how to worship Him, but that I don't know how to love Him, serve Him, offer Him to others, live for Him, or trust Him. Each time I make such a confession I sense God's presence and blessing. God loves the truth more than anyone I know. When I tell Him the truth, no matter how hard it is, I feel His pleasure and am assured of His love. In Luke 2:9 it says, "An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified." I've often been completely taken by the glory of God in such scenes, but I realize lately than the terror of the shepherds was truth-based and, therefore, had to be pleasing to God as well. The shepherds knew God and knew their own hearts. It wasn't just the appearance of the angel, but how they, the shepherds, appeared and were revealed by God's light that got to them. No one can hide anything from God. To imagine things from God's perspective, our attempts at hiding from Him must be deeply offensive to Him. We actually have record of this in Genesis 3:9. I can still hear The Father in my own life asking, "Where are you?"

Have you told the truth to God this morning? If not, what's keeping you from doing so? Where are you?