Jesus is not ashamed of you

Guilt can be good because it can bring you back to the path that you drifted from. Shame on the other hand says that you are useless and not worthy anymore to get back to that path. Maybe someone reading this devotion knows the feeling of being unworthy, you are not enough and the heart of the matter is the fact that you are a bad person.

Here is the truth: Jesus is not ashamed of you.

“In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. ¹¹ Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.¹² He says, “I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters; in the assembly I will sing your praises.” ¹³ And again, “I will put my trust in him.”And again he says, “Here am I, and the children God has given me.” (Hebrews 2 v 10-13)

The Pastor uses again Old Testament Scriptures to prove Jesus is not ashamed of us.

These are the 3 important truths that will help to convince you today.

1. Jesus took your shame. Psalm 22:22 “I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters; in the assembly I will sing your praises.” When Jesus hung from the cross and said the words, ‘My God my God why have you forsaken me’ he was quoting this same Psalm. One quotation and everyone knew the whole. In the mind of Jesus was not only verse 1 but the whole Psalm. This verse 22 is in the final section of the Psalm when the Psalmist/the sufferer is thanking God for rescuing him. Jesus is working his way through the Psalm as he takes our punishment, as he hangs in shame for our shame and the Pastor knows this. The Pastor uses this verse amazingly to show the people/you that you are a brother and sister of the Son. He has made you worthy to be called such and He is declaring that even now over you. The cross removes your shame so meditate once more on the power of it and rise from your feelings of unworthiness.
2. Jesus sees you as His child. Isaiah 8:17-18. “I will put my trust in him.”And again he says, “Here am I, and the children God has given me.” Isaiah is speaking of his own children but the Pastor rightly uses Isaiah as a sign and symbol of the Messiah and the children being the people/you. God has given you to His Son!
3. Jesus is making you holy. “Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family” v11. The Pastor is saying to the people that in the same family is the one being made holy (them/you) and the one who is making them holy, the Son/Jesus. So we shake of these feelings of unworthiness no matter even if we have evidence from the enemy of our soul to prove them and we acknowledge again that we are a work in progress, amen!
4. Jesus has finished what you could never have achieved. “It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered” v10. Not that Jesus became perfect but our pioneer of salvation completed, fulfilled and finished God’s purpose for our lives. So we don’t simply try harder, improve our lives, be better, a try and fail scenario throughout the year.
5. Jesus has given you a future. “In bringing many sons and daughters to glory” v10. So not only are we children and brothers/sisters we are also sons/daughters of the Son, Jesus. But He has given you a destiny. There is His glory in front of you. No matter what is behind you or how you feel in the present, His glory is ahead of you.

Those 5 truths are reason enough for you not to feel unworthy any more.

Jesus is not ashamed of you!