A HYPOCRITE COULD NOT COME BEFORE GOD
"HE also shall be my salvation, FOR A HYPOCRITE COULD NOT COME BEFORE HIM."
Job 13:16 (NKJV)
A profound statement was made in this passage by Job, saying, A HYPOCRITE COULD NOT COME BEFORE HIM, GOD (Job 13:16).
God wants sincerity, He would not want you to relate with Him with deception in your heart.
One of the reasons why Job, at the end of the whole distresses, was justified than his friends were; he was sincere in his dealings with God—he was not hypocritical:
7 AND SO IT WAS, AFTER THE LORD HAD SPOKEN THESE WORDS TO JOB, THAT THE LORD SAID TO Eliphaz THE Temanite, “MY WRATH IS AROUSED AGAINST YOU AND YOUR TWO FRIENDS, FOR YOU HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF ME WHAT IS RIGHT, AS MY SERVANT JOB HAS. 8 NOW THEREFORE, TAKE FOR YOURSELVES SEVEN BULLS AND SEVEN RAMS, GO TO MY SERVANT JOB, AND OFFER UP FOR YOURSELVES A BURNT OFFERING; AND MY SERVANT JOB SHALL PRAY FOR YOU. FOR I WILL ACCEPT HIM, LEST I DEAL WITH YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR FOLLY; BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF ME WHAT IS RIGHT, AS MY SERVANT JOB HAS.”
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite WENT AND DID AS THE LORD COMMANDED THEM; FOR THE LORD HAD ACCEPTED JOB. 10 AND THE LORD RESTORED JOB'S LOSSES WHEN HE PRAYED FOR HIS FRIENDS. INDEED THE LORD GAVE JOB TWICE AS MUCH AS HE HAD BEFORE" (Job 42:7-10 NKJV).
God does not want hypocricy or deceptiveness at all. If you are not happy and you are bothered with what is happening in your life, tell God about it and say it as it is in your mind.
That was what Job did that made God say that he did speak of Him what is right than his three other friends. And God accepted him (Job 42:7-9).
Note:
• If you needed to cry before God, you should go ahead and do that.
• If you needed to tell Him how you are feeling, groaning, and being discouraged, go ahead and tell him. Jesus Christ Himself before He went to the Cross was discouraged and sorrowful, He told everything to God in prayer, pleading that God should allow the cup to pass over Him but If it was God's will to do He will oblige to drink it (Matthew 26:37-41; John 12:27,28).
• It is not a sin or a crime to tell God how sorrowful you are, or how you are feeling, but it should not be done through complaining and murmuring (1 Corinthians 10:10).
Jesus told His agony to God in the midst of prayers asking God to help Him lift the burden and If it could not be lifted but had to be borne, God should let it be (Matthew 26:39; John 12:27,28).
Do not relate with God hypocritically. Tell God how you are actually feeling! Do not use faith confession before God, instead plead and tell Him how things are actually are with you.
You can confess positively before human beings after you have prayed to God, but before God in prayer, you would have to tell Him everything about how you are feeling.
Peace.