When you do something wrong, you feel guilty and remorseful. You often try to correct that wrong and usually vow to never make that same mistake again. Shame however, is different. Shame has to do with disliking yourself. You feel inferior and inadequate. These feelings are dangerous because they are not directed towards a wrong deed, but towards yourself.

Because of shame, many have cut off relationships, turned to harmful vices, such as addiction, isolated themselves in disgust and even turned to self-harm. 

Shame usually comes as a result of failure, or especially when your circumstances are not favorable. And for Christians in particular, it is bad because you know and believe in a great God, but yet, cannot seem to attract this greatness into your life.Enter the shame.

• Perhaps your shame is having to hide the fact that you have family members who are incarcerated.

• Perhaps your shame is that you are unable to give birth and so have no family to call your own.

• Perhaps your shame is coming home to an empty fridge and pantry every day.

• Perhaps your shame is having your neighbors watch as your car or house is repossessed.

• Perhaps your shame is the spiritual attacks that you face on a daily basis.

You know exactly what area of your life brings shame to you.

Let me ask you, is this it for your life? Is God done with you?

Of course not! In fact, He states that, “My people shall never be put to shame.” Joel 2:26

In other words, shame isn’t from God, and when you give your life to Jesus, you become ‘His people’. Do you consider yourself to be a person of God? Then it’s time to stand up and fight against all the shame that you face. And if perhaps you are not yet a person of God, well then that is the explanation for your shame. However, it is not too late. If you are reading this message it’s because God is calling you back to Him. Turn to God and allow Him to work in your life. 

This is one Scriptural promise that you cannot afford to miss out on.

May the God of the Bible bless you.

Bishop Joshua Fonseca