No Shame In My Game

After getting my youngest daughter Kamryn, cleaned, dressed, and ready for daycare, I attempted to pick her up to place her on my bed. While doing so, I smelled a foul scent.

In mid air, she slid herself out of my hands and onto the floor where she then started to crawl under the bed to hide because of the shame she felt from making a bowel movement.

Her feeling this way made me think of all the countless number of people that also feel ashamed from making a mess after Father God cleaned them up.

A few things we must keep in mind is that we will never be a perfect people.

Even after God has cleaned us up, there will be times that we will make a mess of things – things we need not be ashamed of because we have a Father that loves us and has given us the grace to become clean again.

Of course, our mess (sin, evil, and unrighteousness) will always be a foul aroma to God. But His love for us is able to bypass it and empower us to become clean.

One of the goals of the enemy is to destroy us.

Destroy our mind and how we view ourselves – then destroy the way we think God sees us.

With a mindset like this, we inflict our personal opinions onto God, which then adds shame, frustrations, and guilt.

God wants us to continually see ourselves through His love.

When we learn to do this, there will be no place for shame and we will give our selves grace.

But nothing, including our foul messes, can ever cause God to love us less, turn away from us, or give up on us.

Say it with me:

“There’s no shame in my game because my Father loves me no matter what!”

" And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:31-39 NLT