Satan is busy these days accusing the Children of God. I guess that is why one of his names in the Bible is the accuser. Revelations 12:10 discusses how “the accuser (who is to be cast down) spends his days and nights accusing the brethren before God. One of Satan's main purposes is to destroy us any way he can. Shame and quilt are excellent ways to try and stop a child of God who wants to live a new life in Christ.
Shame and guilt are crippling many who do not understand the freedom that comes from being a child of God. 1 John 1:9 states, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (ESV). As children of God we become purified and righteous when we confess our sins and accept Jesus Christ as Savior, so why do many of us still feel so shameful and guilty? The word of the day here is “feel”.
Messing with our feeling is one way Satan tries to controls us. He does this by giving us false information or lies about who we are now as God's child because of who we used to be before we came to Christ. Isaiah explains it this way in chapter 54 verse four, “Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded (confused), for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth”(ESV). Christ is asking you to believe and trust in Him for your worth, not your feelings. You see your faith in Christ Jesus and what He accomplished on the cross is your freedom, and has nothing to do with how you feel.
Faith is a sincere belief. Our sincere belief in Christ is what begins to change us from the inside out when we give our hearts to Him. I have said this many times before that we need to stop relying on our feelings and rely on our faith in what Jesus has done for us. He died and carried all our shame and guilt with him. Jesus died so we would not have to.
People we are free and need to start living like it!! Isaiah 50:7 states, “But the Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame” (ESV). Halleluiah!!
Let's listen to Hillsong sing "Who You Say I Am". What a joy it is to be a child of God!!
So what do you say this week we start to try and spot the lies Satan uses to control our feelings. May we start to take those false accusations out of our thoughts and replace them with the truth about who we are in Christ Jesus.
Your Sister in Christ,
Jacque Barnes
