No Sense of Shame or Hurt

This is still a new thing for me to learn.

I have lived so much of my life feeling bad and kicking myself for doing something wrong.

I had read as early as 2006 that immaturity defines a person who walks around in shame, who feels bad about things that they have done wrong.

We are not supposed to keep feeling bad.

We are not supposed to keep punishing ourselves.

Did the blood of Jesus not accomplish the work that needed to be done?

This is still a new revelation for me.

We are not supposed to revisit the Cross every time we do something wrong.

We are not supposed to go back to feeling bad or guilty and then try to feel un-guilty -- for lack of a better word.

That is wrong.

We are not supposed to feel guilty or condemned at all.

The next challenge to this revelation - how are we supposed to go from doing bad to good? How do we grow in life and respect for others?

That is where the grace of God comes in!

"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; 13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." (Titus 2: 11-14)

Grace is a teacher -- shame and hurt do not teach anyone anything.