By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:25:28 +0000

I recently read a book called “TrueFaced” by Thrall, McNicol, and Lynch. The title is a play on the phrase two-faced. The book talks about how we, as believers, put on masks when we are with each other, always answering the question, “How are you?” with ,”I’m fine.” All the while, we are harboring deep pain, loss, sin, etc. The authors use the analogy of two rooms, one being the “room of good intentions” in which we strive to please God on our own terms, and the “room of grace” in which we come to understand God’s love for us and allow ourselves to be loved by Him and others. I must admit that most of my Christian life has been plagued by the wearing of one mask or another. As the Lord draws me into relationship with Him through His Word, inviting me over and over again to share in the Triune relationship of the Father and Son, as Ron describes in this post, the masks begin to fall away. It is in getting a glimpse of God’s love for us that we are able to love and be loved in a way that creates the deep bonds with Him and with others that our hearts long for—precisely because they are the kinds of relationships for which we were created.

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