Have you ever had days where nothing goes right? Maybe days when no matter how hard you try, you get everything wrong? How about those days when you wished you had just stayed in bed?

Some days I mess up so much that I hesitate to face God. I’m covered in shame and embarrassed by my own sinfulness. And so I hide, neglect prayer, and leave my Bible on the shelf.

There are also times when shadows from the past pursue me in the present. A word, an incident, a flash of memory will bring something from the back of my mind to the forefront. The same feelings of shame and unworthiness will overtake me as though no time had passed. My actions and sins from the past will taunt me, telling me that I have not changed, and that I am still unworthy.

Does your life, whether in the past or the present ever feel too messed up for God to love you? And have you ever thought that maybe everyone else has this Christianity thing figured out and have left you behind?

This mini series, The Healer of Our Souls, is meant to draw us to the Source-God and His Word.

When shame and unworthiness haunt us, when the past holds us hostage, and when our messes in the present tell us we can’t be in God’s presence, remember that Scripture tells us otherwise. For those who believe in Christ, this is our anchor of truth:

1. When Christ died for us, He died for all our sin-past, present, and future. (Psalm 103:12, 1 Peter 2:24, 1 John 4:10, Romans 4-5,8, Colossians 2)

2. God looks at us and sees the righteousness of Christ. The perfect life He lived, has become ours. (Galatians 2:20, Romans 5:15,8,Colossians 1:21-22, Colossians 2)

3. God loves us just as much as He loves the Son. (John 17:23)

4. Nothing can separate us from Him. He will never leave us or forsake us. (Romans 8:38, Deuteronomy 31:8)

5. We have been adopted. We are permanently part of God’s family. Jesus is not ashamed to call us part of His famiy. (Hebrews 2:2-3, Romans 8:15-17)

These are the truths we need to return to time and time again. Every time we doubt, every time we feel unworthy of love, every time shame rises up in our heart, we need to remember that we are loved more than we could ever imagine or understand. It was that love that took on flesh, became sin, and died so that we could be restored as children of God.

Because the cure for shame and doubt is remembering God’s great love for us.

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