There is no shame in struggle.  Even the best among us will face trials and adversity.  It is no strange thing.  

I know many of us have been taught to hide our problems and pains, as some false demonstration of strength or some foolish pride.

Unfortunately, concealing our struggles and pain often makes it worse because we just end up feeling alone and ashamed.  

If you’re going through a difficult season, understand that you are not alone, that it is not a strange thing, you are not the only one, and you have no reason to be ashamed. While adversity finds us all, it needn’t define us all!  

Now, there is a shame that comes as a consequence for our own misdeeds and disobedience, but there is grace for us even in that!  When we waiver, we are chastened as God’s beloved but we are not destroyed!  

I want to encourage you this morning.  Don’t allow your struggles to make you ashamed. All of us are going into, coming out, or right in the middle of some struggle that we did not cause or create.  Such is life, but we needn’t allow shame to send us into hiding where loneliness and despair takeover!

We have one another and God has us all!!

Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.  

1 Peter 4:17

Good Morning, I love you all!

ihs,

just adam