All for your consideration.
If partiality means “to receive the face,” Jesus was “as one from whom men hide their faces; he was despised and we esteemed him not” (Isa 53:3). He bore the shame of poverty to show us the shame of our sin, and at the cross, he bore that guilt and shame in our place.
If I’m honest with myself, I’m not okay with being not okay. Don’t get me wrong. In one sense, this is holy…But there’s another way that not being okay with being not okay is evil and wrong. Instead of hating my sin, I tend to hate myself for sinning at all. I expect myself to be perfect—sinless—right now. Whenever I feel I’ve sinned, I’m thrown into despair. That’s wrong. Here’s why.
