Steps to Freedom: Reject the Shame

This week, we’re continuing to look at the specific steps that we must take to push through our soul pain toward the freedom that awaits us. We talked about the first step — Embrace the Pain — last week, and now, we’re going to talk about the second step: Reject the Shame. According to Matthew 26, Jesus said that His soul was “overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” but He knew that dying for our sins on the cross was God’s plan and would not allow anything or anyone to shame Him out of following the path to freedom. Shame may be the number one obstacle to our freedom, but if we’re going to reject the shame, we need to understand some things about it first. We recently learned that all our chains are rooted in our own sin or other people’s sin against us, and as we examine the very first sin in human history and see how fast shame shows up in Genesis, we will learn some valuable lessons about how we can resist the enemy’s attempts at shame, guilt and condemnation that so often keep us in chains.