Comments on: From Shame to Grace http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2010/04/from-shame-to-grace/ Create your future. Solve problems. Impact eternity. Live - really live - today. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:32:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Relevation: Turn Spiritual Rock into Diamonds | LifeVesting http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2010/04/from-shame-to-grace/comment-page-1/#comment-2932 Relevation: Turn Spiritual Rock into Diamonds | LifeVesting Sat, 15 May 2010 10:39:41 +0000 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/?p=2611#comment-2932 [...] How does this speak to the way I see myself?  How does it speak to my sense of worth, competence, and value?  What does this truth say about me (regardless of what my circumstances may say)?  How does affect the way I “talk” to myself, or what I believe about myself in terms of past, present, or future?  How does it relate to my appearance, age, body type, or sense of shame vs. grace? [...] [...] How does this speak to the way I see myself?  How does it speak to my sense of worth, competence, and value?  What does this truth say about me (regardless of what my circumstances may say)?  How does affect the way I “talk” to myself, or what I believe about myself in terms of past, present, or future?  How does it relate to my appearance, age, body type, or sense of shame vs. grace? [...]

]]> By: bill b http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2010/04/from-shame-to-grace/comment-page-1/#comment-2872 bill b Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:55:49 +0000 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/?p=2611#comment-2872 I have been struggling with thoughts of shame and berating myself. I have decided to focus on my positives and congradulate myself for my progress. I have made a lot of changes and I am grateful to God to giving me opportunities to learn from others. I have heard that God speaks through other people and I strive to be a positive influance in others' lives. I want to focus on others and help them, by that I will feel better. I am not the center of the Universe! Humility is accepting that I am no better or worse than anyone else. I have been struggling with thoughts of shame and berating myself. I have decided to focus on my positives and congradulate myself for my progress. I have made a lot of changes and I am grateful to God to giving me opportunities to learn from others. I have heard that God speaks through other people and I strive to be a positive influance in others’ lives. I want to focus on others and help them, by that I will feel better. I am not the center of the Universe! Humility is accepting that I am no better or worse than anyone else.

]]> By: Andy Wood http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2010/04/from-shame-to-grace/comment-page-1/#comment-2862 Andy Wood Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:16:00 +0000 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/?p=2611#comment-2862 V - Thank you for your encouragement. I often say that the primary reason people feel guilty is because they are! But shame is a different matter. Guilt says, I have done a bad thing. Shame says, I am a bad person. Grace says, Jesus died for my sins, and nobody "deserves" that - that's what makes it grace! I hope you will keep reading - and keep resting in the grace of God. V – Thank you for your encouragement. I often say that the primary reason people feel guilty is because they are! But shame is a different matter. Guilt says, I have done a bad thing. Shame says, I am a bad person. Grace says, Jesus died for my sins, and nobody “deserves” that – that’s what makes it grace!

I hope you will keep reading – and keep resting in the grace of God.

]]> By: "V" http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2010/04/from-shame-to-grace/comment-page-1/#comment-2861 "V" Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:40:47 +0000 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/?p=2611#comment-2861 I really would like to thank you for this wonderful post! I just came from spiritual and emotional depression, but it was all like singing Bob Marley's "I can see clearly now" when I read this post! There is true shame when we have conscience to ourselves, about our screw-ups/sins, and after all that, we might as well be surprised as God's grace will come along the way,(you'll suddenly fell you're burden is taken away, chains broken, all because of having self-shame and self-conscience!) even if we don't deserve it, well as this post says it all, that's the true purpose of grace! I really would like to thank you for this wonderful post! I just came from spiritual and emotional depression, but it was all like singing Bob Marley’s
“I can see clearly now” when I read this post!

There is true shame when we have conscience to ourselves, about our screw-ups/sins, and after all that, we might as well be surprised as God’s grace will come along the way,(you’ll suddenly fell you’re burden is taken away, chains broken, all because of having self-shame and self-conscience!) even if we don’t deserve it, well as this post says it all, that’s the true purpose of grace!

]]> By: Eric Chaffin http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2010/04/from-shame-to-grace/comment-page-1/#comment-2836 Eric Chaffin Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:48:02 +0000 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/?p=2611#comment-2836 Praise the Lord that He blasted my shame into tiny bits with His grace, by the power of the cross. Praise the Lord that He blasted my shame into tiny bits with His grace, by the power of the cross.

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