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Sheila Walsh: It’s Okay to Be Honest | 5 Minutes with Jesus

February 19, 2026 | S E | 7:13

Sheila Walsh: It’s Okay to Be Honest | 5 Minutes with Jesus
5 Minutes with Jesus is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh: It’s Okay to Be Honest | 5 Minutes with Jesus | February 19, 2026
  • Nothing.
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  • Nothing that affects you is petty to god.
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  • I don't know what losses you've had in your life.
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  • I don't know what you're walking through right now,
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  • But i want to say this.
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  • Don't hurry through it.
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  • And don't hide the pain.
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  • And don't let anyone tell you to get over it.
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  • And don't hide in secret.
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  • Thinking the pain won't find you there.
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  • Because it will. i promise.
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  • Said.
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  • Have you ever read a passage
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  • In the bible and thought, well, i do not like that.
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  • In the past,
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  • I found the story of abraham and isaac really hard to read.
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  • I tell you, when i first became a mom, i found it almost cruel.
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  • You might remember that in genesis chapter 22,
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  • God asks abraham to take isaac the son
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  • That he and sarah had waited so long for.
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  • To the peak of mount moriah to slaughter him and sacrifice.
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  • Why would god do that?
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  • I mean,
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  • Why would he make them wait until sarah was 90 years old?
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  • Well, beyond the possibility of conceiving a child,
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  • Only to ask abraham to kill their son.
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  • And what made it even
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  • More confusing to me was that god knew all along
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  • That he'd step in at the last moment and save isaac.
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  • That he'd provide an ultimate sacrifice.
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  • A ram right before abraham's knife pierced isaac's heart.
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  • Well, i believed back then
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  • That god only did that to reward abraham's obedience.
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  • At least that's what i'd always been taught.
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  • Which kind of played
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  • Right into my old belief of performing for god.
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  • But i read the passage over and over one day, because i knew
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  • The holy spirit
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  • Was trying to illuminate something that i was missing.
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  • So i read and i read and i read.
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  • In fact, for most of that day, that's all i did.
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  • And then i turned to another familiar story.
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  • And slowly i began to understand the beauty of it.
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  • I almost broke my heart.
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  • I've heard sermons comparing the story
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  • Of isaac and abraham to jesus,
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  • Saying that god spared isaac but didn't spare his own son.
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  • But there is so much more to it.
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  • As i read the story of christ's crucifixion,
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  • The parallels leapt off the page.
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  • Think about it.
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  • Abraham placed the wood for the sacrificial pyre on
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  • Isaac's back.
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  • Christ carried the cross
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  • On his back up the hill of his sacrifice.
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  • Isaac cried out to his father, asking,
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  • Where was the sacrifice for the offering?
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  • Christ cried out to his father,
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  • Asking why he turned his back on him.
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  • The sacrifice.
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  • Isaac escaped death
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  • After a three day journey.
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  • Christ escaped death when he rose from the dead
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  • On the third day.
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  • When isaac asked what the sacrifice would be,
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  • Abraham told isaac that god would provide a lamb.
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  • God provided christ,
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  • The sinless, perfect lamb.
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  • There are so many more parallels in the stories, but
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  • There's one powerful distinction that caught my attention.
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  • Abraham took his son to the top of mount moriah,
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  • But he brought his son back down again.
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  • Christ walked up that hill to calvary,
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  • But he didn't come back down, at least not immediately
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  • On that hill.
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  • Christ shed his blood to save every broken one of us.
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  • I'd completely missed what it means to be delivered.
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  • To be saved.
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  • To stop hiding.
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  • To tell god the whole truth.
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  • When i was younger,
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  • I thought salvation meant that we were fixed.
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  • That's a very small view.
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  • But as i sat that day in my father's presence,
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  • I saw jesus on every page of the word of god.
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  • What happened with abraham and isaac on mount moriah
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  • All those years ago wasn't a cruel test.
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  • It was the very embodiment.
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  • The playing out of the promise of deliverance for you
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  • And me made possible
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  • By the lamb of god.
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  • Nothing.
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  • It's effects you.
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  • It's petty to god.
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  • He loves you and he cares about everything that affects you.
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  • He wants to deliver you,
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  • To bring you a present day salvation.
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  • But i want you to hear this truth again.
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  • Nothing.
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  • Nothing that affects you is petty to god.
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  • I don't know what losses you've had in your life.
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  • I don't know what you're walking through right now,
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  • But i want to see this.
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  • Don't hurry through it.
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  • And don't hide the pain.
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  • And don't let anyone tell you to get over it.
  • 00:05:03.960 --> 00:05:07.130
  • And don't hide in secret.
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  • Thinking the pain won't find you there.
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  • Because it will.
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  • I promise.
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  • Wouldn't you rather confess it to god?
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  • To feel him taking your load and delivering you?
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  • God will never be offended by your honest
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  • Gut level grief or anger.
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  • I honestly think we only offend them when we hide our pain,
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  • When we pretend that we can save or shield ourselves from it.
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  • Trust him with the real you.
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  • All of you.
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  • Pour out your heart, your tears, and your disappointment.
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  • God will never run from the real you.
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  • He'll pull you close.
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  • You don't have to hide anymore.
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  • You get to speak your pain out loud.
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  • Get used to the sound of your own voice telling the truth.
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  • You don't have to be afraid of being broken.
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  • Will always be broken this side of heaven.
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  • But that brokenness can only follow us so far.
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  • And one day we'll be home.
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  • But until then, tell god the whole truth.
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  • Let me pray for you.
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  • What i want to thank you for all the way
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  • Through the old testament.
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  • There's pictures
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  • Of jesus, pictures of the one who would come, pictures
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  • Of the perfect lamb who would be sacrificed
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  • In our place.
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  • What i want to thank you so much that when we feel
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  • As if we don't belong and are not enough,
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  • That you have already taken our place, and you say to us, in
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  • Me you are more than enough.
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  • Lord, i
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  • Thank you that you are a safe place for us to tell the truth.
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  • Sometimes, lord,
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  • We feel
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  • As if
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  • We can't tell you everything that's going on inside
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  • Because we don't want to shock you.
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  • But it's crazy because we know you already know.
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  • Help us to bring the truth into your light,
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  • And you've promised
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  • That you will share our lord and walk beside us.
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  • Thank you in jesus name.
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  • Amen.
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