By Andrea Merrell
“We wear our spiritual Spanx to church,” the speaker said. “It’s easy for us to keep it altogether for an hour and a half while we’re
at church.”
Everyone laughed, but his point hit the mark. We tend
to stuff all our junk inside a tidy, well-put-together facade on Sundays. Some
call it putting on our church mask. We’re so afraid to be transparent. To ask
for prayer. To “confess our faults one to the other.” We fear that others will ridicule
our faults and weaknesses. Shame us for our sin. We believe they’ll look down
on us, accuse us, and never see us the same as before. But the speaker went on
to say, “We don’t know we’re truly loved until people see us in our mess.”
Isn’t that where Jesus found us … in our mess? The
Bible says he lifted us out of the muck and mire and set our feet on a solid
rock. He made beauty out of ashes. He took away our filthy rags and gave us His
very own robe of righteousness. In Him, we are free. Free of accusation. Free
of guilt. Free of condemnation.
Friend, there’s no need to hide. Take off the
spiritual Spanx. God has called us out of our former darkness to walk in His glorious
light—where nothing is hidden. Where we are loved and accepted.
Ahhh … now doesn’t that feel
better?
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