shame
Shame.
Just the word makes me feel this over whelming sense of belittlement. Feeling shame looks is like a wilted flower. The person feeling shame may be a beautiful person but he/she does not feel beautiful. All one feels is embarrassment, dishonor, humiliation, alienation, inferiority, and inadequacy. It’s like being caught in quicksand. Shame and sin make quite the pair. Normally after one sins shame quickly follows. This is because, I believe, that we can only feel shame when we are outside the will of God. God’s perfect will is there that we may live life and live it to the fullest.
I suppose some people get confused when Jesus said “I have come that you may have life, and have it to the fullest.” They get confused because perhaps they are a Christian but they don’t feel like they are living life to the fullest. You see the key word in that verse is “may”. He came that we may have life to the fullest. It’s not that God is saying that there is only a possibility that we will have life to the fullest. It’s that He’s saying we may take it. He is offering us life to the fullest. However, we don’t always take it. You see “life to the fullest” doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy. It means that if we draw near to God he will draw near to us. We will have ups and downs but God is going to be there so that we can get the most out of life. He promises that he will fulfill the desires of our hearts. But first we must receive life to the fullest through loving Jesus Christ. As long as we love the Lord our God we will benefit from everything we do in his name.
To me this means that it’s ok if my life isn’t easy today. BUT (and that’s a big but) when it is hard, God is going to be right there with us and if we walk away he will wait patiently for us to come back.
God Bless
Haley Kate
Just the word makes me feel this over whelming sense of belittlement. Feeling shame looks is like a wilted flower. The person feeling shame may be a beautiful person but he/she does not feel beautiful. All one feels is embarrassment, dishonor, humiliation, alienation, inferiority, and inadequacy. It’s like being caught in quicksand. Shame and sin make quite the pair. Normally after one sins shame quickly follows. This is because, I believe, that we can only feel shame when we are outside the will of God. God’s perfect will is there that we may live life and live it to the fullest.
I suppose some people get confused when Jesus said “I have come that you may have life, and have it to the fullest.” They get confused because perhaps they are a Christian but they don’t feel like they are living life to the fullest. You see the key word in that verse is “may”. He came that we may have life to the fullest. It’s not that God is saying that there is only a possibility that we will have life to the fullest. It’s that He’s saying we may take it. He is offering us life to the fullest. However, we don’t always take it. You see “life to the fullest” doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy. It means that if we draw near to God he will draw near to us. We will have ups and downs but God is going to be there so that we can get the most out of life. He promises that he will fulfill the desires of our hearts. But first we must receive life to the fullest through loving Jesus Christ. As long as we love the Lord our God we will benefit from everything we do in his name.
To me this means that it’s ok if my life isn’t easy today. BUT (and that’s a big but) when it is hard, God is going to be right there with us and if we walk away he will wait patiently for us to come back.
God Bless
Haley Kate
posted by Haley Kate @ 9:45 PM
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