If someone exposed all your deepest sin and shame... Do you think others would accept you, forgive you and love you? If they had knowledge of your deepest, darkest sin - would it change the way they saw you? Are you terrified to expose to the Light that which shames you and keeps you bound and broken, chained and tortured by your guilt? When I turn the magnifying glass upon myself - I am intimately acquainted with my own sin, my failures, my wretchedness and shame. The knowledge of our sin and our capability to sin is an understanding that brings great sorrow, grief and heartache. Its hard to conceive and fully comprehend that Jesus paid the price for my sin, for your sin... For a long time, I struggled to understand and accept His grace was and is truly sufficient for me as satan constantly attacked and confronted me through the knowledge of my own sin before God. It kept me broken, kept me knocked down, feeling I was not good enough to be acceptable before God. I was winded by this knowledge and could not seem to get enough grace for my spirit to breathe. But The Lord, in His mercy and grace, showed me that I was only seeing part truth. I was so blinded from the realisation that i was so ugly inside, so corrupted, so soiled that I bought satans lie that I was beyond healing, beyond grace. It IS true I can never be right enough before Him, its true in my own state, strength and ability I simply cannot be made acceptable before a Just and Holy God - which is exactly WHY He sent Jesus to pay the price for MY sin! Because none of us are worthy, not one. This basic gospel fact was lost on me. I knew this cognitively, yet I was living my life under such condemnation it crippled me. I came to such a low point I felt hopeless, bereft and broken. Ironically, it was at this point of such brokenness where I finally reached the end of mySELF. I finally realised I COULD NOT fix myself. It was in these moments I finally understood what death to self meant. ALL I could offer Him was ME - broken, damaged, shamed, soiled, sinful ME... Thats when I gave up the fight and surrendered ALL of me to Him... And then He began to minister to my spirit, He was SO very gracious, so forgiving, so merciful that I was overwhelmed by His love. In this place, flat on my face I repented; deep, purging, cleansing repentance and I was washed clean! I grasped a deeper understanding of how wide and long and deep His love for me was and I received a new identity that was birthed from and through HIM, I finally understood who I was: a Daughter of the King! Me! This revelation broke the chains of self condemnation I had been so bound by. He delivered me and set me free by His grace and now my chains are gone! Hallelujah! If you are crippled by your guilt, your shame and your sin is ever before you, NOW is the time to fall on your knees and receive His amazing grace. Now is the time to repent and receive cleansing from the ONLY one who CAN save you - Jesus Christ. Dont delay, do not allow satan to cripple you one more day and receive His grace this day.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 01:55:45 +0000
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