Bo's Cafe: It's all about Him!

Take a chance; read it!

This is a book that will hardly win a prize in literature. But, for many of you, I think, it just might hit home. Let me quote a few lines from the book:

"Doesn't matter how competent, intelligent, or accomplished you are [or think you are!] You've got it [shame] tucked away in there. And nobody can cope for any period of time with the feeling of that nakedness. You know what shame does? It takes a particular violation or several violations from your past, something that really got to you, and convinces you [that what you] felt like in that violation is who you'll always be, for the rest of your life. Sad,huh? --- We don't want others to see us for the person the lie has told us we are. We almost unconsciously create a lie to protect us from the lie. Bad combination." (pp.146-147). (emphasis mine)

It takes great strength for me to realize that the Greatest Man Who Ever Lived took more than my sins and guilt with Him to His death on the cross. My shame was nailed up there too ... almost 2000 years before I was even born, but I can forget that in a nanosecond if I allow myself to forget.

He [Jesus] essentially said,

"I took your shame for you two thousand years ago. And I won the right to have it never, ever again define you. It doesn't belong to you anymore. It's over. That's the truth. (p. 151)"

Why can't I remember that simple, but profound truth?

Anthony Van Dyck's Crucifixion