Dinner With Jesusનમૂનો

Sometimes we are our harshest critics. If we talked to anyone else as harshly as we talk to ourselves, we’d be mortified. But for some reason, we think it’s okay to talk down to ourselves, berate ourselves, shame ourselves. We don’t see ourselves as being harsh. We think of ourselves as deserving of that kind of language. But in this letter to the Romans, Paul tells us the truth we should be telling ourselves.

Instead of condemning and judging and even hating ourselves, Paul wrote, that Jesus’ willingness to die in a demonstration of love should tell us exactly how we should talk: with no condemnation. If Jesus doesn’t condemn us, why should we condemn ourselves? We are free. So, knowing that how might you live differently believing—and not just hearing—that you aren’t condemned?