Shame Filter
Shame Filter
This was probably the best graphic to show my life. I could not receive. I kept going to church, listening to sermon after sermon, praying prayer upon prayer but I could not receive. I did not understand that shame was blocking me from receiving the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ.
Then came that spiritual experience when all the sudden my defenses were down, I was a loving child of God and my heart opened to receive Him. For that split second I was able to experience God’s love, grace, forgiveness, redemption, and healing.
Being a cross between the prodigal child and the woman at the well I needed an experience. What changed me was not more head knowledge, I needed a heart experience. I needed a meeting of the heart with Jesus.
Jesus took all my shame to the cross and it has been covered with the blood. I am free, free indeed!
*this diagram re-created from Helping Victims of Sexual Abuse by Lynn Heitritter and Jeanette Vought
