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: Transform Your Life | 5 Minutes with Jesus | March 13, 2026
- You and i cannot earn god's righteousness.
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- But paul said, god offers his righteousness as a gift.
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- When we trust in christ as our savior, god
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- Wraps us in the righteousness that belongs to jesus.
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- And when god looks us, he doesn't see our failures.
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- He sees the perfection of his son.
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- You. the scripture
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- Encourages us to live a transformed life.
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- I believe that one of the things that holds us back
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- From a renewed mind
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- And a transformed life is the impact of shame.
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- And that was my story when i was a child.
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- I was born on the west coast of scotland.
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- Scotland is a land of castles, the oldest
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- Dating back to the 11th and 12th centuries.
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- When you stand inside one of these magnificent buildings,
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- You can almost feel the history.
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- Hear the voices and the rhythm of the
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- Celtic music seeping out the ancient stones around you.
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- Disney castles did not come from scottish molds.
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- We built our castles for war and to defend our people
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- Against our enemies. not for fairy tales
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- Or for little girls in cinderella pajamas.
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- Well, lockdown castle lies just a few miles from where
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- Most of my family still lives.
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- And in the summer time,
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- We often went there for picnics with friends.
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- We would spread our blankets on the grass, unpack
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- A picnic baskets at the edge of the loch,
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- Outside the ruined walls of this ancient fortress, enjoying
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- The glorious scenery and the sun reflecting off the water.
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- Well, once everyone got settled in, i disappeared.
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- The castle held a secret that no one else seemed
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- To have discovered apart from me.
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- As an agile
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- Child, i could step inside the large stone fireplace
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- Of the one remaining tower and then,
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- Resting my back on one wall and my feet on the other.
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- I could slowly climb to the top of the chimney,
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- And then crawl out
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- Onto the highest remaining point on the castle walls.
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- I loved i would sit there at the top.
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- The voices of my family faint in the distance,
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- And on a clear day i could see for miles across the water.
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- You know, i became a different person up there.
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- Gone was the girl whose father had died
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- In a shameful way that no one ever liked to talk about.
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- I was no longer the girl with hand-me-down clothes
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- And one pair of good shoes up there.
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- I was a scottish
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- Warrior princess who had gladly
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- Laid down her life for her people.
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- Up there, anything was possible.
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- I would slay dragons.
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- And when something fearsome threatened to storm the castle,
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- I would, of course, destroy it with one mighty bow.
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- But then, inevitably,
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- I would hear my sister's voice shouting out from the bottom
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- Of the chimney, sheila!
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- It's time to go home.
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- If mum sees you up there, you will be in big trouble.
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- So climb back down and reenter.
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- A world is far less glory.
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- A world where shame
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- And all its recklessness seem to rule the land.
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- When you hear the word shame, what comes to your mind?
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- This is how i differentiate shame from guilt.
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- This is not a clinical
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- Definition by any means, but it helps me understand
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- The words differently.
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- If i said something unkind to my husband, i would feel guilty
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- Until i could sit down and say, please forgive me.
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- That was absolutely my fault.
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- So if guilt tells me that i've done something wrong.
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- Shame tells me that i am something wrong.
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- What do you do with that?
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- I believe
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- That for many who love jesus, shame is crippling them
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- From living the transformed life that jesus paid for.
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- Jesus took our shame so that we could be free.
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- In psalm 34, one of my favorites, david
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- Wrote this at one of the worst moments of his life.
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- He said this
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- Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy.
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- No shadow of shame will touch their faces.
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- Perhaps one of the areas where we need our minds most
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- Renewed is in our understanding of who we are in christ.
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- Until we're finally home and we see jesus face to face.
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- We will be works in progress.
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- How does god our father see us?
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- You and i cannot earn god's righteousness.
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- But paul said, god offers his righteousness as a gift.
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- When we trust in christ as our savior, god
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- Wraps us in the righteousness that belongs to jesus.
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- And when god looks us, he doesn't see our failures.
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- He sees the perfection of his son.
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- This is what paul wrote about in philippians chapter three.
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- He talked about everything
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- That would have made him seem worthy before that,
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- Until he met jesus.
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- But then he wrote this.
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- I once thought these things were valuable,
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- But now i consider them worthless
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- Because of what christ has done.
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- Yes, everything else is worthless when compared
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- With the infinite value of knowing christ jesus my lord
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- For his sake
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- I have discarded everything else, counting all his garbage
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- So that i could gain christ and become one with him.
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- I no longer count on my own righteousness
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- To obeying the law.
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- Rather, i become righteous to faith in christ.
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- When we begin to grasp the truth of that, when we
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- Renew our minds to line up with who god says we are,
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- Then you and i can live a transformed life.
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- Let's pray.
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- Father.
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- Thank you.
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- Thank you, jesus, for what you have done.
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- Thank you that you paid the price for my sin.
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- I thank you
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- That when we've placed our trust and our faith in you,
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- We are covered in your righteousness.
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- Our father doesn't see all the mistakes in the failures
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- We've made.
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- He sees your life and your love.
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- Lord, help us to reject the lies of the enemy
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- And to live in the truth of who you say we are.
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- Thank you for loving us in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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