Getting naked isn't always comfort-inducing!
When God asks us to lay ourselves bare before him, he is actually telling us we need to be totally and completely exposed to him. At first, this seems a little disconcerting to most of us because we are not used to exposing ourselves! We live life kind of "covered up", don't we? In fact, there are even some of us who will even struggle to be totally exposed in the safety and security of our own homes! Why? It brings us to the level of being left without anything to hide behind and that is uncomfortable for some. The hardest lesson for us to learn sometimes is the one of trusting God not to laugh at or mistreat our "nakedness" before him. I don't mean this in a crass sense, but a nakedness of emotions, thought, and even our will. When we are THAT transparent that he can see beyond all our attempts to hide our true feelings, tumultuous thoughts, and battle of the will, this is the place where we can truly begin to heal from those things which make us w