Chronic Shame (2 of 3)
Series: Come Find Your Mercy
Craig Smith
Mark 5:25-26
I. Introduction
[Transition from Come Find Your Mercy song]
Man, I love the line in that song that says ''earth has no sorrow that heaven can't heal.''
For the past couple of weeks, we've been talking about what God's remedy for one of our most persistent sorrows, our most persistent pains. I'm talking about shame. And as we're defining it in this series, shame is the persistent feeling that we're not worthy of love and belonging. Shame is different than guilt. Guilt says we need forgiveness...shame says we'll probably never get it because the only one who can give it, God, doesn't want anything to do with us. Which isn't true, but that's what shame whispers in our ear. The shame that we carry shades us from the light of God's love.
Now, for the last couple of weeks, we've talked about shame that comes from the wrong that we've done. Today we're going to talk about shame that comes from a different source. Today we're going to talk about shame that comes from things that have happened to us rather than things that we 've done.
And I realize that might sound strange. I realize some of you might be thinking ''why would anyone feel shame for something that they weren't responsible for? That's not rational.'' And you know what? It might not be rational, but just because it's not rational doesn't mean it's not real. The truth is, sometimes the things that make us feel isolated, alone and unworthy of love and belonging, are actually things that we have very little control over.
Let me see if I can show you what I mean. Why don't you grab a bible and start making your way to Mark 5:25. We're going to take a look at a story from the life of Jesus about a woman who was living in the shade of shame, not because of something she had done wrong but because of something that was wrong with her.
II. Main Body
25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for ...
Series: Come Find Your Mercy
Craig Smith
Mark 5:25-26
I. Introduction
[Transition from Come Find Your Mercy song]
Man, I love the line in that song that says ''earth has no sorrow that heaven can't heal.''
For the past couple of weeks, we've been talking about what God's remedy for one of our most persistent sorrows, our most persistent pains. I'm talking about shame. And as we're defining it in this series, shame is the persistent feeling that we're not worthy of love and belonging. Shame is different than guilt. Guilt says we need forgiveness...shame says we'll probably never get it because the only one who can give it, God, doesn't want anything to do with us. Which isn't true, but that's what shame whispers in our ear. The shame that we carry shades us from the light of God's love.
Now, for the last couple of weeks, we've talked about shame that comes from the wrong that we've done. Today we're going to talk about shame that comes from a different source. Today we're going to talk about shame that comes from things that have happened to us rather than things that we 've done.
And I realize that might sound strange. I realize some of you might be thinking ''why would anyone feel shame for something that they weren't responsible for? That's not rational.'' And you know what? It might not be rational, but just because it's not rational doesn't mean it's not real. The truth is, sometimes the things that make us feel isolated, alone and unworthy of love and belonging, are actually things that we have very little control over.
Let me see if I can show you what I mean. Why don't you grab a bible and start making your way to Mark 5:25. We're going to take a look at a story from the life of Jesus about a woman who was living in the shade of shame, not because of something she had done wrong but because of something that was wrong with her.
II. Main Body
25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for ...
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