Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. - 2 Timothy 2:15
How to combat shame with your faith
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. - Ephesians 2:10
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. - Matthew 5:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession - 1 Peter 2:9
His banner over me is love
Butterflies don’t dwell on who they were as a caterpillar. You are a new creation. You are not the old you.
Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. - Isaiah 43:1
I’m a trust fund baby. (It’s just that it’s in Heavenly currency.)
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. - Psalm 139:13
I want to be an instrument of Your peace
Remember who God made you to be
"I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God." - Saint Patrick
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. - Philippians 3:20
Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. - Genesis 3:19
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! - 2 Corinthians 5:17
"Blessed is the servant who does not think himself better when he is praised and exalted by men than when he is considered vile, simple, and despicable; for what a man is before God, that he is and no more." - Francis of Assisi
I am a Christian. I'm not ashamed of the gospel.
Four verses to conquer shame
You are God’s masterpiece
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. - Jeremiah 1:5
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. - Ezekiel 36:26
You are a child of the King
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! - 2 Corinthians 5:17
Renewed: What it means to truly start fresh
The Power to Change: Can you be a new you?
God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. - Galatians 4:4-5
The Same God
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. - Matthew 5:9
Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. - Colossians 3:12
Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ. - Galatians 1:10
