11/04/2019
hello all !! well just thinking out loud ,something I have to be careful doing, running from shame is running through my mind. Been throwing some thoughts back and forth with a good friend about how shame runs us. It seems the things that happen to us in our youth can end up being the catalyst to keeping us in shame. we learn to run from it, hide in it, identify our selves by it, and believe that we are less than because of it. It comes upon us from the devil himself, it was Adam and Eves first response to their disobedience against God. Father had to ask them who told you that you were naked! Shame has been running many of us ever since. In our own efforts we will never do enough to overcome the shame that besets us. Not even our greatest service can change what happened to us, or what we did that still shames us today. Shame is put upon us, it may find its beginning in another person putting it upon us, or our own bad choices doing the things we didn't really want to do but was tempted to the point of giving in. Never the less it is the devil and his demons that heap it on us and make our minds run and run trying to control things that are out of our control . Trying to serve others till the pain of shame subsides working and working to fix the thing we cannot change!!! So on and on we run and hide and make fig leaf coats to cover the naked shame of our past or present behavior. Both are coming out of the shame that is being poured upon us by Satan. His reason, to keep us out of fellowship with Christ ! and keep us in fellowship with our sin. Or thinking on the thing that happened to us, that was done by another person and likely not our idea at all. Likely with most of us it is the combination of both. Caught in the belief that we deserve shame because of our sin, or whatever it was that happened to you. Possibly they are connected we find ourselves acting out of the shame of the past, and it is causing the present doing of sin. Freedom from shame is only found in Christ and setting our minds on him not on our shame.
Christ took our shame on the cross..
Hebrews12:2 Fixing our eyes on Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising its shame and is sat down on the right hand of the throne of God
1.Since then you have been risen with Christ , set your hearts on things above where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2.Set your minds on things above , not on earthly things.3 For you died, and your life in now hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:1-3 Keep your eyes on the prize...
Randy
