I mentioned before that after I
had my oldest daughter I avoided church. I think I had so much shame and trauma
from having a child while still being a child myself that it was too painful to
hear the messages that church had to offer. My parents had such strong feelings
of disappointment that I thought the church would have them also. Over the
years my family and friends have tried to get me to attend church and bible
study, I was still so stuck in my shame that I always declined. If this sounds
like you then I’m sure you are familiar with “I just haven’t found the right
church for me”, “I am too shy for bible study”, excuse, excuse, excuse. I think
the two main issues were my shame and not wanting to be judged.
We often feel unworthy to approach God and have the loving and intimate
relationship that He wants us to have with him! Shame prevents us from intimacy
with God because it makes us feel unworthy and distant from Him.
Hebrews
10:22, "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with
pure water."
God
wants us to draw near to Him with a clean conscience that has been freed from
dead works!
Women are more affected by shame
then men. We often feel that we don’t measure up and are never good enough even
for God. We as women have these feeling more
often because of the curse / consequences given down from the falling of Eve.
There are two things we need to
remember Romans 8:1 -There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ
Jesus. And we have been given grace. I will touch more on grace in my next post
till then…
May God keep you and bless you.
Rest in his love for he enough…and so are we!
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