فیض خدا و شرمهای ما- میلاد چیتی (یکی از معلمین و محققین کلام خدا

Milad Chiti gave his heart to the Lord in 2000 when he was a teenager. Since then he has been able to serve God in different areas such as leading the worship, pastoring, teaching, and preaching. He got married to his beautiful bride, Roohafza about 13 years ago. It is about 11 years since they have been serving in Turkey. Over the past 5 years, he has been involved in preparing Persian content for the Persian speaking believers. He is studying his master’s in theology. Over the past 2 years, he has been studying the topic of shame and vulnerability. He shares about what Shame is.

Shame is a painful feeling of humiliation and distress, not having a sense of belonging and not being accepted. Shame refers to the sense of not being adequate before God because of sin.

When God created Man, they were naked and felt no shame. “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.” Gen 2:24-25

However, when Adam and Eve disobeyed God sin was committed and shame entered humanity because they had rejected God’s commandments.

“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.” Gen 3:6-7

We realize that shame is the direct result of sin. When Adam and Eve sinned, they felt ashamed and noticed they were naked. Their nakedness was revealed because they had disobeyed God. Their intimacy, innocence, sincerity, bluntness, and even their vulnerability with God were exposed. So after they sinned, they were trying to cover their shame.

Many times, we are in the same situation. Maybe something has happened in our lives as the result of a wrong decision or others might have caused some pains in our lives. Sometimes because of some physical issues (such as lack of clear speech or other physical ailments), we feel ashamed in front of others. There are many other reasons we might feel ashamed. That is when we try to wear a mask to cover our shame.

In Genesis 3: 8- 11 says: “Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, ‘Where are you?’ He answered, ‘I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.’ And he said, ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?’

After they committed sin, Adam and Even did hide from God. Shame makes us want to hide our inadequacies from God and others. God made Adam and even to face up with their shame. Many times, we try to hide our shame through different masks, hoping that our nakedness gets hidden. We hope through hiding ourselves our shame won’t be revealed. But the reality is that shame gains power in silence and grows. But when we talk about our shame and we face up with our shame with God’s help, we can find the root of our shame and take the right action. Sometimes to deal with our shame, we try to become perfectionists. We think by being perfect the level of shame in our lives will get reduced. A perfectionist person constantly tries to hide her/his weaknesses. Let us read 2nd Corinthians 12:7- 10 ” or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

His grace will make us feel adequate or sufficient in his presence. We can see in the story of Adam and even that before God expelled them out of the Garden because of the consequences of their sins, he covered their shame through the sacrifice of an animal. He covered them through his grace. In Christ, his grace can cover our weakness and nakedness. he can then help us to experience the sense of being accepted by God as his children.

لطفا به مطالبی که میلاد عزیر در رابطه با مبحث شرم به شیوایی بیان میکنند گوش دهید. اگر در این زمینه تجربه یا شهادتی دارید خیلی خوشحال میشویم با ما در میان بگذارید.