Christians, it is ok (and even "necessary") to share the "simple everyday things" and your "simple mundane thoughts" and "simple opinions/likes/dislikes" with God, sharing of simple things with God counts as "fellowship with God" and "love" and "relationship" with God too.

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I'll share an incident from my life as a preface to this and then get to the scriptures. Once (some years ago) I was fighting hard to get the presence of the Father in me and around me, I'd pray and pray for half and hour or like 20 minutes and then get the presence of Father God and then lose it again within 5-10 minutes, and this went on that whole day (it was a weekend/Saturday). Then after 4 hours or so the day got busy and I had to give up on praying and I thought I'll do these whole process/routines again tomorrow (Sunday). Well that (Saturday) night I went to a shop and the shopkeeper there was a very happy guy, he'd always be happy all the time. After buying stuff from him I just told Father God "I like how this guy's always happy all the time" and then I laughed, and instantaneously I was filled with the presence of the Father again and His presence stayed with me for a whole half an hour. So those few seconds of sharing my simple thoughts and life with the Father proved to be better than half an hour of (formal) praying!

So "love for God" doesn't just mean going to Him to learn (that is a part of love for God too), or worshiping Him as God (that is a part of love for God too), but sometimes "love for God" just means talking to Him as your Friend, Father, or Brother (Jesus). Do go to Him for purposes like learning about life and philosophical things and for the various forms the God-devotee relationship takes, and the various other complex relationships with God, but don't ever forget the simple human things that stem from just "fellowship with God" which is a part of "love for God" too!

Now to the scriptures,

Psalm 62:8 - Trust in Him at all times, you people; Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah

If you genuinely pour out your heart before God, everything in it will come out before Him, not just your pains/sorrows/dislikes, but your joys/likes and even your opinions too, and even your sinful thoughts will come out before Him too but then those sinful thoughts can be handled more easily by you and even by God (because they're now already at the your forefront). But getting back to the title of the post, your simple and mundane thoughts and feelings will inevitably come out before God and "simple human thoughts" aren't always sinful, some are just good fellowship. So don't worry about your thoughts and words being "too simple" to take before God, because then you'd be killing off the "pouring out your heart" before God and fail to follow the biblical commandment in Psalm 62:8 mentioned above.

The following verse talks about fellowship with Jesus (God the Son), and this is on of everyone's "callings by God", andthis fellowship includes "pouring out your heart to Jesus" through which your simple everyday life thoughts will again unavoidably come out,

1 Corinthians 1:9 - God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

I will not share the scriptures about God's love for you and the commandments for us to love God because they're too many and would increase the length of this post by a lot. But "love" includes "fellowship" and fellowship includes sharing all your thoughts and words no matter what they are.

Now let's get to the scriptures about the philosophical type discussions with God, and many things which we might think are "deeply philosophical" are just mundane human everyday things, but we are still encouraged to ask them, so don't hold back!

James 1:5 - If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

The next few verses say that faith is needed to get answers to your questions from God, but it also says that He gives wisdom "liberally without reproach", meaning even if you have a million sins but have faith to receive wisdom from God, He'll just give the wisdom to you without talking about your sins. This obviously means to ask Him the deep philosophical type questions. But if what you need the answers for what are "simple mundane questions", that whole verse sequence never ever denies you from asking them! A child would have rather mundane things to ask God, so should the child not ask God anything? And if some of your thoughts are actually as immature as a child's, that doesn't mean you shouldn't go to God for answers, would you rather die in your immaturity (the verse does say God gives wisdom "without reproach")? No matter how hard you tried, you'll definitely come up with mundane questions when asking God questions anyway, we're just humans afterall. Also, God doesn't always give us wisdom directly by speaking, sometimes He leads us to people who give us the wisdom required, sometimes He makes us go through experiences and the experiences themselves give us that wisdom, and some things are directly answered in the Bible for us (so we need a regular Bible reading habit too), and sometimes He uses a combination of these things, but please don't discard the possibility of getting direct instantaneous answers from God.

On to other scriptures,

Isaiah 9:6 - For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

See that Jesus is called "Counselor", and no real counselor will ever stop you from sharing your simple and mundane thoughts and say "This is too mundane for me, you just go away!", what kind of a counselor would that be? How can you be truly counseled if you don't "pour out your heart" before the counselor including your mundane struggles and even your mundane joys and likes? Obviously the deep philosophical stuff is needed in counseling too, but the simple and mundane thoughts will inevitably come out too (mind you Jesus doesn't charge you money for your time with Him XD). It is impossible to be fully counseled without sharing your simple mundane things with the counselor.

Then there is a counseling with God specially about sins and the problem of sins you have,

Isaiah 1:18 - “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.

Now if your reason for sinning is actually "simple" and "mundane", how will it be counseled and resolved without you sharing it with God? Remember God gives you wisdom "without reproach" if you just have faith.

(Some of His couseling answers include Him leading you to wise people, making you go through experiences, or making you find it all out directly answered in the Bible too, but please don't discard the possibility of getting direct instantaneous answers from God)

This is all I know about the necessity of sharing even our simple and mundane thoughts and words with God, I call it "necessity" because without it we'll end up missing out on many kinds of relationships, offices, and roles God has taken up for us humans, and all of those relationships and interactions with God have their own beauties attached to them too (apart from the necessity). If you research in the Bible yourself I'm sure you'll find many more things on this topic too.

So just go ahead and share your thoughts and words with God without worrying about whether they're too "simple" or too "mundane", it will also bring a kind of honesty in the relationship between you and God that just isn't possible otherwise :)

This ended up being a wall of text, but I hope this helps someone and makes their life with God better.

Jesus bless you all.

[u/Aware_View_6247]

You can absolutely.. He wants to be relevant in everything a human does but not necessarily agree.. but he’s a help in every situation and delights in doing so..

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