5 Minutes with Jesus is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh: Letting Go of Shame | 5 Minutes with Jesus | January 30, 2026
- Condemnation is not from god.
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- Instead, conviction is from the holy spirit.
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- Conviction says, come on. come closer.
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- Stand up again.
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- You're forgiven. there's a clear path ahead.
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- So don't allow the enemy
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- To take place in your life this year of condemning you
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- For things that christ has already paid for.
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- Condemnation doesn't belong to you.
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- Christ took that on himself so that you and i could live
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- Free from condemnation.
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- Do you ever look in the mirror and think i'm just not enough?
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- Do you feel like you just don't quite measure up?
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- I think that's way more common than we realize.
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- In fact,
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- One of my favorite quotes by louis schmitz
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- I don't know if you've ever read his books,
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- But they're brilliant. he's got this great book.
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- Highly recommend, called shame and grace.
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- And in this book he wrote this simple phrase.
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- But it so resonated with me.
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- I dragged around inside myself
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- A sense of not good enough ness.
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- That is the message of shame.
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- Shame, a debilitating message to anyone who listens is
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- Who do you think you are?
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- Don't you even dare show up.
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- You will never be enough.
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- Interestingly,
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- The message of christ is the exact opposite.
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- I know who you are.
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- You're my beloved daughter.
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- I know who you are.
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- You are my treasured son.
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- The thing that makes shame maybe harder to shake
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- Than some other negative feelings
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- Is we know that there's some truth to its message.
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- We don't feel worthy of god's love.
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- We do mess up at times.
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- But that's why you and i need to plant our feet on this truth.
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- I'll never be good enough to win god's love.
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- And i don't have to be because of jesus.
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- I'm loved and accepted, right now.
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- When paul wrote to the church in rome,
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- He said that there is therefore now
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- No condemnation to those who are in christ jesus.
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- But i think we struggle to really receive that.
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- But let me say that again because of jesus, when you've
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- Placed your trust in him, you are loved and accepted.
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- Right now, maybe,
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- Maybe we should write that down on a card
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- Or a sticky note and put it where we'll see it every day.
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- Don't think of all the years
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- That you've told yourself that you're not good enough.
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- It'll take some time
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- For the truth of god's word to be louder than a lie.
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- You might have believed for years.
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- Well, let's look at another way that shame can materialize
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- In our lives.
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- It's kind of, i guess the flip side, almost.
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- And that's blame when shame feels too heavy to bear.
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- And you don't know what to do with.
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- It is tempting to seek relief in blaming someone else for
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- How you're feeling.
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- I mean, it's not just tempting.
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- Let's face it, sometimes it is true.
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- If you think of someone who has been sexually abused,
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- The responsibility for the sin rests with the one who did it,
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- Not with you.
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- I think sexual abuse is about the worst thing that can happen
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- To a child.
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- Innocence has been murdered that can't be undone.
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- In her book, i thought it was just me, but it wasn't.
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- Doctor brené brown draws an important distinction between
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- Blame and accountability.
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- She says we're a culture obsessed with finding fault
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- And assigning blame, holding ourselves
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- Or others accountable is a good thing.
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- But blame and accountability are very different.
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- When we move from holding one another accountable
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- For our actions and commitments to blaming them,
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- Then we move
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- From an unhealthy response to an unhealthy response
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- That says the other person or even ourselves are bad person.
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- See, here's the difference.
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- Accountability says what you did wasn't good.
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- What i did wasn't good.
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- But blame moves from the act to the person.
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- You are not good. i am not good.
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- That's one of the things that was so important to me
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- As a mom, raising my son when he was just a little boy,
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- When he'd done something that that wasn't good.
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- To help him understand the difference
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- Between something being not good and him not being good.
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- I don't know whether you struggle with that in your life.
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- If you struggle with feeling like somehow
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- You just don't measure up, that you're not good.
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- I don't know
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- What kind of message shame has spoken into your life,
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- But i want to remind you
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- The holy spirit brings conviction, not condemnation.
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- And the difference is conviction draws us closer to god.
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- Condemnation pushes us further and further away.
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- Romans chapter eight, verse one is actually
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- A very easy verse for us to memorize this year.
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- Simply this.
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- So now there is no condemnation
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- For those who belong to christ jesus.
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- Now, if you think of it
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- As one of the weapons the enemy uses most often against us,
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- We feel condemned.
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- You know, maybe you've said, lord, i'll never do that again.
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- And then you fall, or i'll always do that,
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- And then you don't, and you feel condemned.
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- Just recognize this.
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- That condemnation is not from god.
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- Instead, conviction is from the holy spirit.
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- Conviction says, come on. come closer.
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- Stand up again.
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- You're forgiven. there's a clear path ahead.
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- So don't allow the enemy
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- To take place in your life this year of condemning you
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- For things that christ has already paid for.
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- Condemnation doesn't belong to you.
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- Christ took that on himself so that you and
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- I could live free from condemnation.
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- That's free.
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- But i want
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- To thank you that there is no there
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- For no condemnation to those who belong to you.
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- And lord, so often we do feel condemned.
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- Help us to recognize where that voice comes from
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- And to reject it.
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- Help us to walk conviction that comes from your holy spirit
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- And that draws us closer to you.
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- Help us this year to walk
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- Side by side, following you all the way home.
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- In jesus name, amen.
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