It was a tough terrain and this was the second year I had run it. I had just run 18 miles into the first part of a 45 mile off road ultra marathon in the Scottish Highlands. PLEASE JOIN US.For the audio version of this blog please click the link below: WE ARE PRAYING NON-STOP FOR A GREAT AWAKENING. Do you see yourself more in Nicodemus or in the woman at the well? Why? What do you think about this idea of pride being our primary way of covering over our shame and insecurity? Do you do that?ģ. Give us courage to lay down our pride and come out of the shadows of our shame and insecurity. Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you-I am he.” THE PRAYERĪbba Father, thank you for your Son, Jesus, the one who knows us better than we know ourselves. No amount of external covering can heal my internal wounding. Herein lies the ancient psychology of sacrificial love. Shame is a mortal wound to our deepest identity. Because of our shame, we cannot own our guilt. For a person shackled by shame, to admit doing wrong is tantamount to saying they are bad. This is why we blame others instead of owning our own faults. Pride is the external way we protect our internal brokenness brought on by shame. Pride and shame are two expressions of the same thing: brokenness. We tend to think of pride and shame as though they were two opposite poles of the same spectrum. Jesus knew them both, inside and out, before he ever laid eyes on them. No one visits the well in the heat of the day. This woman, interestingly enough, was hiding at high noon. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked so I hid.” (Gen. 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. That truth? It is impossible to hide from God. There is one core universal truth, which if we could truly believe it, would save us from a world of heartache and pain. Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you-I am he.” CONSIDER THIS When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. You Samaritans worship what you do not know we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.” “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. ![]() He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
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