Living Unfiltered For God

(Originally published July 7, 2013)

Last week at a family camp retreat, while leading a Creative Writing session (used as an avenue to hear from God through writing), I heard what has become a new motto for my life and which has led to the creation of this blog. God impressed upon me this idea of how those of us who are Christian often have a tendency to "sanitize" the word of God to make it more palatable to others in the world who may not share our faith. Not only do we do this with His Word, but also with our actions and behaviors. We know what we should do or say, but if we don't think it will be received well by whatever audience we may have, we "clean it up". We choose to disobey God for the sake of being socially acceptable. Well, what I heard from God that day was that He didn't want that anymore. What He wants is for us to live our lives "unfiltered" for Him. No longer should we feel we need to put a filter on Him. No longer should we try to dumb God down so that we are more accepted. No longer should we seek the praise of men over the praise of God (see John 5:44).

So this is where we start. I will be posting relevant examples of when and where this takes place. Some will be personal - I confess to being guilty of this far too often. Mostly, my desire is that this be a place of encouragement. A safe place to share struggles of living this "unfiltered" life as well as a forum to share the cool "God Stories" of when living the unfiltered life has turned into a blessing. Will you join me?