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Back in January 2021, I felt like God was speaking to me about removing the clown's makeup. Now that morning, I wasn't actually wearing any makeup, but felt like it was metaphorical and the image I had in my mind was of me at Girls' Brigade wearing full face clowning makeup as we were learning clowning at that time. I wasn't instantly sure I was hearing right, so I asked God what He was trying to say and felt led to read the book of Hosea. Odd I thought, but I started to read. The first chapter didn't really grab my attention, but by the second verse of the second chapter the following words resonated within,
"...Tell her to remove the prostitutes makeup from her face..."
Wow! What a thought!
I started to consider how relationship with Jesus as supposed to be the most intimate, most passionate, most exciting relationship of our lives, but how this is often tempered by 'Christian Values'. I began to ask God why relationship with Him doesn't feel passionate and exciting. Why it has to be constrained and acceptable, (A very English polite society view point perhaps, that one must remain calm and carry on!) instead of being the most exciting and passionate relationship we ever enter into.
My thoughts then strayed to a thought that if we "remove the makeup" and allow Him to pursue us, then true love will release us to be our true selves and find true freedom. At the time I was reading the Bridgerton book series and a constant theme throughout was that as people found their true love's, they were then freed to be their true selves. The very things that they had kept hidden from the world were now acceptable because they are loved by the one person who's opinion they value the most. This should be God's opinion, but we often place our value in the hands of those around us, maybe on how our posts are doing in the realm of social media, instead of trusting that He made us perfect from the start.
Hosea 2:2 could be seen as a confrontational scripture, meant to condemn, as it feels like God is speaking about something more than shameful. The reality is, He actually wants to strip us of the falsehoods and shame that we accept so often as our truth, instead of realising the deception that it is. He simply wants to restore us to wholeness that then allows us to show Him through who He designed us to be.
He wants to draw others to Himself by our expression.
Teach me to fall in love with You
Draw me
Woo me
Show me how to cast off restraint
Let me dance in the rivers of Your love
Let me run and chase after You with all abandon
Catch me as I fall
Lift me to the highest of heights
Chase me and pursue me
All the days of my life
Catch me
Hold me and never let me go
Let my thoughts be consumed by You
Let my heart overflow with Your love
Your grace
Your mercy
Let my life be a lifetime of expression
Of who You are
Let it be a canvas to the world
To show Your immeasurable love for it
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