“Lay down your burdens. Lay down your shame.
All who are broken, lift up your face.
Wanderer, come home; you’re not too far.
Lay down your hurts, lay down your heart.
Come as you are.”
We’re all broken. Sin has broken us… our own sin… other’s sin against us. If we allow it to, the burden of shame, regret, fear, etc. of our brokenness can consume us, leading us away form God, further into darkness, depression, and despair.
No matter what happens or has happened, He is still in control and we are never too far to come home! Come home to God’s love, grace, forgiveness, acceptance, justification, and peace in Christ. There may be consequences & there may be discipline because He is a good Father. But if we are in Christ, we are His children forever. That will never change. And He has promised to never leave us or forsake us. Run home, into our Father’s outstretched arms! Receive the unconditional love and acceptance only He can provide! Lay down your burdens. Lay down your shame.
Romans 8:31-39 ESV
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be i against us? [32] He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? [33] Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. [34] Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died-more than that, who was raised-who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. [35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? [36] As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” [37] No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. [38] For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, [39] nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.