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Shame, Shame, Go Away

Shame, Shame, Go Away

Fell, Clarence William, III

Paperback

Religion General Christian Living

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ISBN13: 9798627220994
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 17 2020
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Excerpts from the book... ... Shame is healthy to a point, but when it morphs into self-loathing, then it becomes unhealthy. This lesson is about self-loathing shame, that dark poisoning shame. Instead of thinking, I did something wrong, dark shame thinks, I am wrong, I am broken, and I am defective. I'm no good. God made a mistake when He made me. This shame kills the joy of life. People living in perpetual shame are, in some ways, the living dead. ... Most people suffering shame would never inflect that same pain onto another person. Yet, they inflict it relentlessly on themselves. God wants to help them to stop beating themselves up. They don't have to pay the price for their shortcomings. Jesus already pain that on Calvary. ... Think about all the sins of humanity, you are not abnormal. You are not some kind of rare freak. You sinned just like everyone else has sinned. You have no reason to feel extraordinary shame in front of other people. ... The specific details of your sins will vary from the details of my sins, but we are both sinners just the same. Neither of us needs to feel debilitating shame in the presence of one another. We both have garments stained with sin. The stains may be in different places on our garments, or for different reasons, but we both bear the ugly stains of sin. We equally need the help of Christ. ... Imagine a radio that walks and talks. He is a perfect little radio. He can tune into any radio station he chooses, but he has tuned into weak stations with lots of static and he thinks that there is something wrong with him. He thinks he is flawed and will never get it right. He has stumbled across a good station for a moment now and then, but he loses focus and ends back up on weak static. Let me repeat, there is nothing wrong with him. He is a perfect radio and can pick up any station, but he thinks he is hopeless. ... Some people, after years of living in toxic shame, bury hope deep, they push it far away out of mind. They can hear John 3:16, but they always hear it with an except me, inserted into the verse. They can hear Romans 5:8, but they automatically hear it with an except me, inserted because they have tuned into static for so long, they no longer believe they could be loved, but they are wrong. ... Next, James writes about rain. The reference to Elijah is not about getting literal rain. Elijah's rain is a metaphor for healing hearts that have been suffering a drought of joy and peace. James is saying that there is healing, there can be rain within. There is no reason to continue suffering through a drought when there is a way out, but the way out is through the fear. There is rain on the other side of the fear. Modern psychology calls it exposure therapy.

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