Bible Verses About Being Honest with God
Being honest with God is necessary to grow in intimacy with Christ. The question is what does it mean, to be honest with God?
When someone asks, “Are you okay?” or “How are you doing?”, how do you reply? Do you give an honest answer? Maybe you are concerned about inconveniencing someone with problems, or maybe you are afraid to show emotions. Maybe pride holds you back from honestly answering this question.
Whatever the answer, most of us never really share the honest answer, because we usually say, “Good, how are you?” Then, we also expect the other person to reply with, “Good.”
Let us be honest for a moment, most people reply with “good”, and they are not good. On the outside, everything looks good. However, on the inside, thoughts race continually, emotions are out of control, and they are often fighting themselves and others for control.
In fact, they have become comfortable with themselves in such a pretend state, that they forget that God already knows their heart.
“If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart?” ~ Psalms 44:20-21 NIV
You might be able to deceive others with the condition of your heart and soul, but you will never deceive God. You must learn to be honest with God and with yourself. Being honest with God and yourself is a risk worth taking to receive God’s love and deliverance.
What does it mean to be honest with God?
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.” ~ 1 John 1:7 NIV
“For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists of all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.” ~ Ephesians 5:8-13 NIV
Being honest with God includes setting pride, pretending, and arrogance to the side and then fully coming into the light of Jesus Christ with any dark and deceptive thought about self, others, and Jesus.
Being honest with God and Yourself
“Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’” ~ John 14:6 NIV
“To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, ‘If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” ~ John 8:32 NIV
“But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.” ~ John 16:13 NIV
Being honest with God and yourself means aligning every part of your heart to God’s word and the Spirit of truth. The only way to truly align every part of your heart to God is by allowing the Spirit of truth to search and examine your heart through prayer.
Being honest with God in prayer
“Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” ~ Psalms 139:23-24 NIV
“The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.” ~ Psalms 145:18 NIV
By allowing God to search and examine your heart through prayer, God will bring to light any dark or deceptive thoughts about yourself, others, or Jesus. Asking God to search your heart is the most genuine way of being honest with God and yourself. You will be set free and delivered once God has exposed the deception.
Being honest with God verses
“Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.” ~ John 3:20-21 NIV
“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” ~ 1 John 1:8 NIV
“Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” ~ John 4:23-24 NIV
“The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.” ~ Psalms 145:18 NIV
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