No Guilt, Blame, Shame or Anxiety
What the gospel does is confront our version of our story with God’s version of our story. It is a brutally honest, exuberantly liberating story, and it is good news.
It begins with the sure and certain truth that we are loved.
That in spite of whatever has gone horrible wrong deep in our hearts and has spread to every corner of the world,
in spite of our sins,
failures,
rebellion,
and hard hards,
in spite of what’s been done to us or what we’ve done,
God has made peace with us.
Done. Complete.
As Jesus said, “It is finished,”
We are now invited to live a whole new life without guilt or shame or blame or anxiety. We are going to be fine.
Of all of the conceptions of the divine, of all of the language Jesus could put on the lips of the God character in the prodigal son story he tells, this is what he has the father say,
“You are always with me, and everything I have is yours.”
- Rob Bell in Love Wins
