Category: poetry

  • Shedding Our Shame

    Since the day Adam and Eve hid from God, shame has been a problem in our relationships. Not only can Jesus Christ remove the guilt of our sins, but He also knows how to rescue us from shame.
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    Shame is a Shroud

    Shame is a shroud
    that suffocates our souls
    and hobbles our heels.

    Covered,
    hiding,
    we know we are exposed.

    This unshakable shame
    sucks life from spirits
    like marrow from a bone.

    Who will rescue us
    from this wretchedness?

    There is Only One
    who felt that piercing of heel,
    that draining of life,
    that draping of shame,
    swallowing the dregs of the cup
    and drawing it all into Himself before

    breathing

    the shame undone,
    the curse reversed,
    and all things made new.

    shame

    Let us lay our hands
    on the head of the Lamb.
    Let us shed all shame
    onto this Sacrifice
    who willingly wears
    our twisting of thorns
    and dies
    under the weight of our shroud,
    a death-wrapping
    forever
    left
    in an empty tomb.

    The shroud discarded,
    His glory displayed
    for the joy of all creation,

    for our shame is undone,
    the curse reversed,
    and we have been made new.

    shame

    © 2016.  Tami Myer

    Isaiah 50:6                              Hebrews 12:2