SHAME-PROOF

Joshua 5:9 AMP
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “This day I have rolled away the reproach (derision, ridicule) of Egypt from you.” So the name of that place is called Gilgal (rolling) to this day.

Shame is painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt, an unfortunate development that brings dishonour and causes one to be ashamed.
Shame is something we feel for the actions we have done, actions done by those associated with us, or for actions done to us. Shame creates a barrier in our lives. Our shame prevents us from acting boldly and living in the defeat of past failures.
The reproach of Egypt—They being uncircumcised made them like the uncircumcised Egyptians, and the uncircumcised were seen as impure by the Jews.
After their circumcision, the shame or reproach of the uncircumcision was rolled away.
Do you have a shame-based life?
What has caused you shame?
Are you rooted or grounded in shame? Isaiah 54:4 says that the Lord has promised to remove the shame and dishonour from us so that we don’t remember it anymore. Further down in Isaiah 61:7, He promises to pour on us a twofold blessing to overcome every spirit of shame we experience. The promise is that we will possess double what we have lost, and we will have everlasting joy.
We may have lived the kind of life that induced shame but in and through the word of God, we become shame-proof. The enemy will then no longer have anything with which to shame us.
We may suffer physically, be embarrassed, and dishonoured by our conduct, be derided because of who we are or from, we may suffer contempt for whatever reason but when we take a stand on the Word of God, become rooted and grounded in God’s love, we become complete in Him.
Many Christians feel that they are pathetic, they bring reproach upon themselves by accepting the world’s view of who they are, but God seeks to motivate us through divine grace—not through sin’s disgrace, according to John 3:17. God’s grace is not extended to us because we are pathetic, but because of his gracious love. Men may remind us, show, and recount our shame but Jesus covers our shame.
Some use religion to make others feel pathetic while the enemy wants to enslave us with humiliation and reproach. We are no longer slaves to sin according to Romans 6:6 and cannot continue to serve sin without denying our new identity in Christ.
So, as we think about the kind of self-image shame and guilt project on us, we must understand that God looks at us through the righteousness of Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:2 says when we come to Christ, we renounce and disclaim the hidden things of dishonesty and shame, things wickedness, which they want no one to know about and are ashamed to acknowledge by the manifestation of the truth of God but an open acknowledgement of what we know to be the truth of the word conceals nothing, but we are made “shame-proof” only by the Spirit of God.
The Lord not only promises to roll away reproach but to afflict our persecutors with punishment in Zephaniah 3:19 and fight whatever oppresses us by turning the shame back on our oppressors and accusers. God is rolling away shame and reproach from us by His mercy.
No more shame, you’ve been made shame-proof in Christ.
So, allow the reproach to be rolled off.
Shalom

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