Do you carry any shame? Is there shame for what you have done? Shame for your past? Shame for your failures?

Shame is a feeling of worthlessness. Shame is a disgrace you assign to yourself. It’s a fear of the worst of you being exposed, and that fear makes you hide. But don’t you realize there’s absolutely NOTHING you can hide from God. He sees it all and knows it all. You don’t sneak behind God and get away with things. He’s fully aware of that secret.

One of my best friends has a coffee mug that’s a picture of Jesus peeking over a pair of sunglasses he’s wearing and it says, “I saw that.” My friend, Jesus saw that. More than anything he wants to say about it, he wants to DO something about it. Jesus wants to cover your shame.

In Genesis when Adam and Eve are disobedient and ate the fruit they were told not to eat, their very first feeling was of shame. Shame caused them to hide. But do you know what God did in response to their shame? Chapter 3, verse 21 says, “The Lord God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife.” I’ve never noticed that before. God himself made the first real clothes to cover their shame.

God doesn’t desire his sons and daughters to walk around in shame. Shame separates us from him and all he ever wanted was a close relationship with us.

This is exactly why the enemy works so hard to cover you in shame. Shame separates us from God. We naturally hide in our feelings of worthlessness and self-assigned disgrace. The devil wants to poke at those unhealed wounds within to make that shame ooze from you. It’s all an attempt to keep you from God.

But know this – Jesus saw it and he did something about it!

God made the first clothes to cover the first shame in preparation for the coming covering for ALL shame. Notice what God used for the clothes. He used the skin from animals. Those animals had to die, they were sacrificed. Adam and Eve had originally made coverings from fig leaves in the garden to try and cover their shame, but that wasn’t good enough. God sacrificed animals and used their skins to cover them. That sacrifice was required.

Shame is only covered by sacrifice. And there’s nothing we could ever sacrifice enough to make us righteous. We can’t change ourselves to be good enough. You could spend every day for the rest of your life trying to perform and earn your righteousness, but you would still fall short. A sacrifice beyond you is required. A sacrifice made by God. God made a covering for shame of Adam and Eve – and God has made a covering for your shame.

That covering is the blood of Jesus. His sacrificed life is what makes you forever good enough.

Yes, Jesus saw what you did and in response, he did something about it. He died for you.

Now girl, you have absolutely zero right to be walking around in that shame. That’s already been bought. It’s already been covered. The high price was paid for you to feel love instead of worthlessness. A huge sacrifice was made for you to be covered in grace where there was once disgrace.

That grace will radically change your life. RECEIVE IT! But then, don’t waste it.

Don’t waste the grace offered to you. Don’t keep replaying the story. Don’t allow the enemy to poke at those wounds – no girl, bring those wounds to Jesus and let him completely heal you.

Grace isn’t a bandaid to just get you through. Grace heals you perfectly. Grace takes your absolute worst and turns it into a testimony. My friend, you have a testimony of how God can meet you in your pit of shame, save you and change you – now what are you doing with that testimony? Are you telling it? Are you using it to help others? Is God getting any good out of the grace he has offered you? Or are you wasting that grace?

I’m a girl who performed for so long that I sought the applause of people more than I appreciated the grace of Jesus. On most days, I honestly didn’t even feel like I needed grace because I was really good at performing. I could make things work. I could grind it out until it happened. And people really liked me. It all looked so good on the outside, but something nasty was happening on the inside.

God loved me enough to see that and not turn away from me. I must have been disgusting to him in my self-righteous performance while using his name. But instead of disgust, he gave me grace. Grace I didn’t even know to ask for. Grace I didn’t even appreciate at the time. Grace for all I was doing wrong and time to turn it around and get it right.

I’ve gone through a few years of deep humbling. It’s been a process of holy conviction that turned my performance into a heavy load I couldn’t carry. Pressure that made me crack. Stress that left this strong willed girl finally giving up. And that’s when grace came in! Grace that made me hate the stage and no longer crave a spotlight. Grace that broke my heart for what breaks God’s heart. Grace that saw me where I was and covered me to take me where God wanted me next.

I’ve changed some things. Am I still embarrassed over the way I had done things for so long. Yes, no doubt. But it won’t become shame. Shame tells me I’m worthless, but God tells me I’m chosen as worthy. Shame tells me I’m a disgrace, but Jesus says his grace is sufficient for me. Shame has no place in a life covered by the blood of Jesus, it’s all been covered. Now, I know to truly be grateful for God’s grace and I won’t waste it. You see if God can be patient with a girl like me, he can be patient with a girl like you. If he can cover me, he can cover you. If I can change, so can you.

My friend, whatever you’ve been carrying around deep inside of you, ashamed of what you did and who might find out – please know this – Jesus saw that and he did something about it. You have been covered in grace. Grace that makes you forever good enough.

God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and Eve to cover the shame that made them hide from him. Blood was shed and a life was sacrificed to make that covering. But that covering would continually wear out and a new sacrifice would be required, or shame would once again enter and separate them from God. That’s why Jesus gave his life. The forever sacrifice that makes us eternally right with God. A permanent covering of grace for our shame.

There’s a song called “Washed” by Elevation Rhythm. It says:

I’ve been washed in the water, washed in the blood
I’m as good as new, oh hallelujah
You took away my shame and you nailed it to the cross
Got me running out the grave, oh hallelujah, here I come

Where are we running? Back to God! No more hiding in shame. We’ve been washed in the water, washed in the blood and we’re as good as new. All our shame has been taken away and nailed to that cross.

When the enemy comes at you to try and strip you of that grace and reassign shame to you, please remember one thing – YOU’RE NOT THAT GIRL ANYMORE. YOU’VE BEEN MADE NEW. You don’t belong in that grave where you once wallowed. You’ve been made forever good enough by Jesus. Oh hallelujah.

What are you wearing and who made that? Is that a name brand, girl? Where did that come from?

If you’re wearing shame, that comes from the pits of hell, hand designed by the enemy of your soul. Get that off of you!

God has a designer piece with the label of grace made just for you. Put it on. It will change you forever.

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