Self Esteem, Inadequacy and Shame – How has the skyrocketing divorce rate and other life choices affected your life here on earth? – Part 3
This week’s topic could not have come at a better time. I have been mauling over this topic for the last few weeks and had put it aside, but now it has come clear to me what needs to be said. This week’s topic is about self-esteem, it’s about feeling inadequate and it is about feeling shameful. The world is filled with options for us, right from the beginning when we choose as babies what food we want in our mouths and what we do not. But we have continued to make choices throughout our lives, good and bad, not always thinking about the consequences. This week we will talk about our self-esteem and feelings of inadequacy using the Bible as the go to reference book of choice…cont’d.
I could go into great detail about our adversary and how there is evil in this world that wants to remind us about our past, etc., which is true (1 Peter 5:8). You can read more about that in another article, Good, Evil and Choice – What is the reality of Good and Evil and what can we do about it? But more importantly let us talk about our advocate, Jesus Christ (1 John 2:1). He is the living God, who came down in the flesh through the life of Jesus Christ. He bore our guilt (Isaiah 53:4). He paid the price for our sins (1 John 2:1). It was a gift (Titus 3:5). Not because of something we did, but because of God’s loving nature, He sent His begotten Son to die for our sins (Ephesians 2:8). This is the loving God that we serve, a God that keeps no record of wrong (1 Corinthians 13:5); A God that formed us in the womb (Psalm 139:13); A God that knows the plans He has for us (Jeremiah 29:11); A God that knew us before we were created (Jeremiah 1:5). Our Creator. Our God!
More to come…
Darrell
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