Real safety

I ache to be real - to be totally authentic! Have you found a heart where you can be that? I have! My soul space, the place I am safe to be real is with Jesus.  I think it is because I have found Him to be a comforter, a helper and my older brother, my soul lover. So Jesus makes me feel safe to face the truth about myself, which is that trying to live apart from Him is hard, and joyless, doing it alone. The truth I can face safely with Him is that I need Him, and He wants me! In fact He wants me and loves me more than I have any desire for Him.  So I allow myself to be drawn to His magnetic love, I stop resisting, and find safety. In the safe place with Him,I see my need and there He swaps my guilt for His innocence, he swaps my weakness for His strength, my ignorance for His wisdom, my misery for His joy, my hate for His love and my rebellion for His submission. I swap my self defence mechanisms for His defence - so He keeps me safe!  My soul space is with Jesus!

Jesus, thanks that you loved me so passionately, so ravishingly - I'm drawn by your love, by your heart and the hope you give me and the safety to be real with you. You don't condemn me or put me down, you lift me up.  I trust you - you are the best, and I want to follow you wherever you go, because you give me peace and you really satisfy.  Thanks for the way you help me and answer me when I call, thanks for helping me  to be real, to let my barriers down in your safety. You wash me clean in your blood and cover me in your white outfit and deck me out in your armour and you guard me with your awesome angels. Talk about safe and protected! I know I'm real safe with you......