When we choose to accept Jesus into our lives there comes an important point when we learn how to deal with shame and regret.
When we experience trauma from someone we trusted, make poor decisions, or feel like we inherited sin from our family, shame finds an open door to invite itself into our lives. Sometimes situations have nothing to do with our actions but the actions of others.
No matter how shame enters our lives, it affects our lives intensely. Just like sin, shame is not hidden easily. Shame can come through jealousy, discontentment, and strife.
When we choose Jesus, we choose love and can say goodbye to shame and regret. Jesus dealt with our shame and guilt on the cross and made us free. Confessing our sin to Him, washes us clean, so we can start over. He gives us a new identity.
Nothing was more powerful than when I heard a fellow church goer say to me one day when I was struggling. “You are not your mother’s sin.” That statement hit me like a ton of bricks. Even though I was saved by Jesus, I still felt the burden of my mother’s sin. I mentally, emotionally, and sometimes physically carried the weight of it.
Jesus carried that weight of sin on the cross. He is the weight bearer. We can give all our shame, and guilt and yes even the weight of sin we carry for others over to Him. His dying on the cross gave us atonement to be forgiven and to no longer be controlled by shame and guilt. Jesus said in Zephaniah 3:29,
“I will give them praise and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.”
Say goodbye to shame and regret and hello to freedom and purpose.
From Pity to Praise 