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
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Timeless info. I can’t tell you how often we discuss topics like this in group. If drunks are seekers why are they so lost. And if they are just hiding, why do they always get found.