No More Bondage - No more shame!

Hiding…. With Easter upon us, the idea of hiding hit me. We make a game of hiding Easter Eggs and then scavenging around to find them. It is a fun game. However, how often do we hide behind images, money, drinking, bad relationships, drugs or ourselves? Most often we want to hide due to the big old “S” word. SHAME!  There I have said it. Guilt is not so bad, it is an emotion or feeling that generally does not attach to your wholeness. Change a behavior and sometimes you can remove the guilt. Shame, though is different. It attaches and then starts to eat away at every fiber of you. The more you hide, the more you have to hide. IT is a viscous cycle. Most all of us have some degree of shame that we carry around like a two ton brick.

Today is the day we remember the death of CHRIST. Christ took our shame. It was hung on the cross with HIM. That is HUGE!!!! You do not have to live in bondage anymore. CHRIST was nailed to a cross in the most horrifying way so that we can have freedom. We can have freedom to live, to be forgiven and to have a close relationship with GOD. Are you seeing how BIG this is yet?

What is it that you love most in the whole world? What is the person, or even an item that you attach so much importance to that you believe you would die if it should perish. With that image of your prized and loved attachment in your mind; how would it feel if you to offer it up as a sacrifice so that someone else shall have freedom. Would you even do it???  GOD DID.

That is the kind of love that we are so freely given. GOD gave us his child. I have 5 kids and I have to tell you, I COULD NOT do it. The mere thought of it brings me horrid anxiety. Luckily, we are not asked to.

People all over the world are being brutally killed in the name of JESUS. And many of those saints are willingly sacrificing themselves because of their faith. I admire that kind of deep faith. I cannot honestly tell you how I would react in that situation. But GOD loves me anyway.

I Deni, have taken the LORD JESUS as my personal savior when I was 17 and generally re-commit that vow as often as I can. BUT…. GOD only asks us to do it once. That is all it takes for JESUS to enter your soul, and your heart and the change begins. The shame falls away. Will you have personal storms to handle? OF COURSE, will you have to handle them alone? NO WAY! Get it?????

Let me ask you this??? What do you have to lose?

1 John 4:9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him

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