It’s Okay To Tell God…

Rise Holy
4 min readSep 23, 2024

One thing that the Lord blessed me to understand this year is that there is no such thing as “oversharing” with Him. In the world, there is always this fear of oversharing, sharing the wrong thing, or boring people with what you have to say. This idea exists that you can talk too much or what you have to say isn’t interesting or that what you’re going through doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. But that is not the case with God.

The Lord was really working on me with this because this is something I have struggled with all my life. I have always been soft spoken and my normal voice often sounds rather “sad” according to most people and so, I use a different voice 99% of the time. I felt unheard and carried around the idea, “what’s the point of speaking when no one is going to listen.” I felt like no one was listening. Ever. Even when it came to talking to God, I didn’t want to bring my problems to Him because He had more important things to worry about. Why would He care about my grades or my friendships or my pains or insecurities? A Great Big God is for Great Big Problems…not little old me. Maybe you have never felt that way, but trust me when I say that at least one person you know has.

What was the result of this? I would push down my emotions. I would push down the hurt, pretend it didn’t matter. I would resist talking to God about it because I didn’t want to bother Him. Then Holy Spirit let me know:

When I come to God with my issues, I am not bothering Him. He wants to hear about it. He wants to know every little detail. There is no such thing as oversharing with God.

That was enough to make me cry, if I am being honest with you! That was a HUGE revelation. Not only does God care, but He will never tell me to shut up, I will never bore Him with my conversation. He loves to hear my voice and talk with me about my day. I’m not a burden to God and neither are you. You don’t have to hold in those big emotions, pretend those hurts don’t exist, or wear a fake smile when it hurts. You can be real with God 100% of the time.

This revelation really helped me in my walk and in my prayer life as well, because it allowed me to see that there is no such thing as an issue God doesn’t care about. Because I cannot overshare with God, I can take every little thing to Him, at any time of the day. While I am driving, before bed, during my Bible study time, even while I am in the middle of a situation. I can talk to God. One of my grandfather’s is in the hospital as I write this, and one of his daughters, my aunt, is extremely childish. Not in a cute way, in that annoying “I really wish you would’ve grown up 30 years ago” way. And so, since I work from home, many days, I’ll drive the hour up to the VA hospital to see my grandfather and sometimes she’ll be there. And she is aggravating. She pokes, makes fun, calls names, and on and on. One day she said something and if it wasn’t for the Holy Spirit, I would have said something extremely hurtful back. Instead, I started praying…Holy Spirit had to bridle my tongue and I am grateful He did! I was annoyed, what she’d said disquieted my spirit. But, if I would have lashed out, it would have done more harm than good. Yet, I could take those big feelings to the Father.

You want to know the best part?

I can tell my God that something just sucks (for lack of a better word) and not only does He hear me and understand me, but He also cares about what I am going through. I can feel like I am blathering on and on, and the Father is just sitting beside me with a smile on His face, just happy to be spending time with His beloved daughter. Isn’t that good to know?

I had spent years burying my emotions, pretending to be someone I wasn’t and wearing a facade. (For those who have read my book Nevertheless, this isn’t new to you.) And all if got me was pain and trouble and migraines and fake friendships. The love of God was able to clean it all away. And when He let me know I can take everything to Him, that is what I started doing, and those pounds started shedding off my shoulders.

I am a 90s baby, but a movie I love is The Labryinth, there is a scene in that movie where the main character allows a pack rat to start burdening her with all this junk. Old toys, old memories, things she really didn’t need to hold on to. I think of it like that, before I began taking it to God, I was packing it on, putting weight on my shoulders that I was never meant to bear. Every time I go to the Father, He takes some of that weight off. So, why would I ever stop going to Him?! Does that makes sense? Let me know!

So, I say all of that to say this: instead of holding it all in, pretending you’re fine when you obviously aren’t…take it to God.

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Rise Holy
Rise Holy

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