You are not the only one with a closet full skeletons. Did you know that it doesn't matter if it's one little toy sized skeleton or the closet's jammed packed with monstrous sized ones? Rather like sin, even the smallest, white ones are still dry bones.
The wondrous thing is that we don't have to keep them there. Christ Jesus died to save us from the punishment of our sins and those include every brittle bone we have ever stuffed away. It's funny that we all recognize and accept Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God", but when it comes to admitting that we still may have consequences from past sins, we feel so alone and that no other Christian will understand.
But, you are not alone.
What is so amazing and gracious about God is He can take those skeletons and use them to His glory through our lives. We can live victoriously, after all!
We need only open the closet door.
What then are we to say about these things?
If God is for us, who is against us?
He did not even spare His own Son, but offered Him up for us all;
how will He not also with Him grant us everything?
Who can bring an accusation against God's elect? God is the one who justifies.
Who is the one who condemns?
Christ Jesus is the One who dies, but even more, has been raised;
He also is at the right hand of God and intercedes for us.
Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Can affliction or anguish or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
As it is written:
Because you were being put to death all day long;
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
No, in all these things
we are more than victorious
through Him who loved us.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life,
nor angels nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing
will have the power to separate us from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!
Romans 8:31-39
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