cause for a celebration

Tuesday March 16th, 2 Corinthians 5: 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! Walking with Christ is walking in the light of possibility. A new creation means we will do our best to discover what God has in the plans in this life for us. Sometime we fall, all of us. We fall into that first of all temptation to be like god, take a big bite of knowledge and power and the desire to be like god, and walk our own way thank you very much. After a while, most of us find the same thing Adam and Eve found, shame. There is what William Bradshaw calls healthy shame that pushes us back to what we should have be doing in the first place, and there is toxic shame that simply tells us that we are a bad person (Healing the Shame that Binds You). For the toxic shame, Christ offers forgiveness and a welcome to New Life. For the healthy shame, forgiveness is already known by the person receiving it, as is the New Life in Christ which is part of everyday life. Either way, it is cause for a celebration.