Posts with the tag “shame”

"For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son." – Romans 8:29 Sometimes the weight of your worst moments makes you feel like you’ve fallen off the path for good. Like you had your chance, but you blew it. Maybe it was a decision you regret, a season of rebellion, or just a string of small compromises that added up to a quiet kind of distance from God. And ...  Read More

"For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." – Romans 8:38-39 Some days it can be hard to feel like God still loves you. You mess up again. You lose your temper again. You let fear take over, or...  Read More

"What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?" – Luke 15:4 It is easy to believe that if you have wandered, messed up, or drifted away from God, He has moved on without you. Maybe you have convinced yourself that your failure has made you forgettable. But Jesus tells a ...  Read More

"Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?" – John 4:29 She wasn’t looking for a Savior. She was just trying to get water without being seen. In John 4, Jesus meets a Samaritan woman at a well in the middle of the day. That detail matters. Women in that culture usually came in groups during the cool morning hours, but she came alone, likely because of the shame tied ...  Read More