Shame, is it really a dirty word?

It can be depending on your point of view. It could be that it also goes along well with guilt as if you are doing something and you feel the presence of somebody watching you. In Psalm 139:8 states "If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." Today, that was the bible verse in which I read a sermon devotion by George Morrison. He was talking about the presence of God being everywhere, with God watching everything we do. Here are some clips of the sermon devotion that I was reading about today.


"There was a certain shopkeeper who had a portrait of Frederick Robertson, that great preacher, in his back shop. Whenever he was tempted to be dishonest, he went and looked for an instant at the photograph, and then the sorry thing he wanted to do became impossible. It was not Robertson's sermons which did that, searching and beautiful though they were. It was not the memory of those flaming words which scorched and shriveled what was bestial. What gripped that man and stayed his itching hand when he was tempted was the constraining power of a presence. "

"There is an old story of a little girl who went to the attic to steal some apples stored there. On the wall hung the picture of some venerable and long-forgotten ancestor. And as she crept along the attic floor, the eyes of that old portrait seemed to follow her until in her childish fear she tore them out of the picture.
If one could only tear out eyes like that, sin would be infinitely sweet for multitudes. But there are eyes no human hand can reach; the eyes of memory and the eyes of God. And that, I take it, is what Scripture means in that text so often misinterpreted, "I will guide thee with mine eye."

Sometimes we see something and misinterpret it wrong, and hear something and do the same thing. Before we jump to conclusions, we should ask ourselves, if not God first, "Am I comprehending this right? Am I really understanding what I am seeing or hearing, or am I a confused little man? Yes you may laugh here if so desire. ......... Okay, enough laughter.

Seriously God watches us just as Satan does. If you are feeling shame and/or guilt about something then confess not only to your Heavenly Father but to a person you may have offended.

Until my next blog entry.


Psa 18:35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation; And thy right hand hath holden me up, And thy gentleness hath made me great.