Romans 6
Free from Shame!
Do you want to be set free from feelings of shame?
Shame is a powerful emotion! It can be demoralizing, debilitating, and destructive when it gets a choke hold on your soul. It is defined as “a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety; a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute; something that brings censure or reproach.”
I want you to be free from shame! More importantly, God wants you to be free!
Listen to Romans 6:20-23, “For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Shame is a real condition between you and God that is caused by your sin and experienced in the truest depths of your soul! It is a manifestation of the enmity—the strife—between you and God.
For this very reason Jesus came–to remove the conflict between you and God—to restore you back into a right relationship with Him!
On the Cross, Jesus Christ took the death you deserve for your sin that manifests these feelings of shame in your soul. Through faith in Jesus—true confession and repentance of sin—you are no longer a “slave to sin”, meaning, you have been rescued from the vicious soul cycle caused by unconfessed sin: the shame and remorse that seek to bind you.
Jesus wants you to live free from sin and fully alive in God’s peace.
Seize the moment and bring all of your sin, shame, and remorse to the throne of grace.