Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah
Yes, how long? It is after all His honor and not our own. Believing lies is disrespecting His name.
Shaming is belittling, why do that to others? Why do it to ourselves?
Life is a struggle. There is no shame in struggling, at least you haven’t given up or given in to the lies. Lies are the tools of the enemy. He will call you unworthy. He will remind you of passages like Romans 3:10 “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:”
While that is true it is not the whole story.
- Romans 3:22
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: - Romans 5:17
For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) - Romans 5:21
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
It is HIs righteousness, HIs faithfulness and His graciousness in which we stand, having none of our own, we have access to His.
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
We live by faith, we walk by faith, we do all things through Him by faith in Him, having no faith of our own because we have placed it in Christ Jesus.
But… no buts, everything after that but is a lie of the enemy, reject it.