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GraceHead vs. LawHead 5 (shame)

If you have been raised in an environment that won't let you deny your guilt, then you are blessed. If your upbringing involved admitting what you did wrong, then you were also blessed. Everywhere you were exposed to your own guilt was a blessing, and everywhere you were allowed to conceal your guilt was a curse. GraceHead instruction will always emphasize the reality of our guilt and shortcomings.

LawHead teaching on the other hand emphasizes the counterfeit to guilt which is shame. Shame says, "You should have done this, but you did that." The person in shame will say things like, "I can't believe that I did that, I’m stronger then that." Well, believe it! ... Because you did, and it is no surprise to God, or anyone else. You are not strong, and you should not think that you should be more capable then exactly what you are.

Shame will cause you to want to escape guilt and blame something else as the cause, as Adam blamed Eve. Shame will also cause to accept guilt that doesn't really belong to you, as Eve did for Adam. Shame is the oppression of not knowing God's love and forgiveness, and will torment you in darkness with the fantasy hope to become a "Great-Christian-Someday" ... worthy "someday." But that "someday" will never come, and so you wait in anguish to be worthy of God's love instead of just realize that you will never be worthy of it, and just own all of your shortcomings as your true condition. GraceHead teaching never values your efforts to change as worthy of anything – because our worth comes from exchanging our mess for the Life of the Lord Jesus.

In order to accept guilt all you have to do is face reality.
In order to live under shame, then all you have to do is construct a fantasy of how you should be to merit significance, and worth.
That fantasy will oppress you, and make you try to impress God, or impress others so they will accept you. If you are successful, then you have to keep up the appearance and anxiously conceal the reality of your guilt. vLike Adam and Eve, you'll put up fig leaves to hide from each other and use trees to hide from God ... that is - until you are that "Great-Christian-Someday."

Next page will discuss - "fantasy."
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