Lunch For Three - Day 10

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"A lot of us have done things in our lives that we're ashamed of. Some are small things, and some of us have really big and devastating things. Some of us even have things that people close to us don't know about. Personal junk that we keep to ourselves so we don't have to deal with it. Because we don't know how to deal with it, do we? We're afraid that if we try it's just going to make everything worse. But no matter how big our junk is, no matter how much what we've done has impacted the way other people feel about us or how we feel about ourselves, it hasn't changed how God feels about us. God loves us, he always has and always will, and there's nothing we can do to change that." NOOMAtube

Have you ever had something from your past come back to bite you in the butt? We all have. We all have things that we are ashamed of and we all have junk in our past. Think about that moment when you first find out that you are busted. "You know that moment when your junk catches up to you? It's like maybe not that day, maybe not the next day, maybe not for a while, but give it enough time it always finds us" (Rob Bell). It's always easy to run and hide from your past, but that doesn't last forever. Eventually you will be forced to man up to the contents of your junk drawer. Someday you will be totally exposed and vulnerable. From the very beginning of time humans have been dealing with the junk from their past.

In Genesis chapter 3 we find Adam and Eve as they realized that they were "busted."
^"8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. ⁹ But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?" ¹⁰ He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid." Adam and Eve knew they were caught, and they hid because they were ashamed. In the midst of our shame we commonly forget one important thing. No matter what we've done, where we've been, or what we will do, God loves us and there is nothing that we can do that will ever change that! Attack everyday with the confidence that you are a screw up and your Heavenly Father still loves you!

"So may you stop hiding under the covers. May you let God pull the covers back. May you embrace him. May your whole life become a response to the truth that you have always been loved, you are loved, and you will always be loved. And may you know, may you know deep in the depths of your soul, that there's nothing you could ever do to make Him love you less. Nothing you could ever do to make God love you less...nothing...nothing." Rob Bell

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