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“Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. You shall speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him for my priesthood.” (Exodus 28:1–3, emphasis mine) The war against shame is on. God puts shame in the crosshairs as he gives glory and beauty to his people. Glory, beauty, and consecrate are all words that identify things that are holy. They belong to God, and everything that belongs to him is made beautiful by association.”
― Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection
― Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection
“The Holy One is not human. The triune God is not human. Don’t limit God’s character by your expectations of what a decent human king might do. You expect God to reject; he accepts. You expect him to turn away; he turns toward.”
― Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection
― Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection
“Meanwhile, let us beware alike of the haste of the impatient, impetuous flesh, and of its disappointment and weariness.”
― Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret
― Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret
“Shame’s hold over you leads you to believe you don’t deserve to be rid of shame. As a result, you treat hope as if it were a contaminated substance.”
― Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection
― Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection
“Try changing the subject so it is more about God than about your shame. The basic idea is to focus on the matchless worth of the Lord God and then get connected to him. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. (Deuteronomy 7:6–8) These words are exactly what you need. They say that God is the better King. He invites you to his kingdom. He is faithful to you because of his love, not your worthiness. He loves us not because we are lovable but because he is love. And, in this particular passage, he is talking to scoundrels who are certainly no better than you.”
― Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection
― Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection
Aaron Brawner’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Aaron Brawner’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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