2 Timothy 2:15 

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.

Psalm 4:2

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.

Galatians 2:20

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.

Romans 1:5

through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,

Paul declares that we have received apostleship but we are not all apostles. There is a distinction between title and actions. The point of the word apostleship is to identify that we are called because apostle means called. We are not all called to do the same thing because if that were so only one element of kingdom living would be attended to leaving all other needs unattended.

How we come to understand what we are called to do comes by faith and that cannot be identified apart from the Word of God. Knowing His Word will lead us by faith to our own calling.

“To bring about” is a qualifying statement which indicates a thing that happens to us and not necessarily a thing of our own choosing. If we all chose to do what we wanted there would be a large number of needs unfulfilled. Grace given is unmerited and should not be given to only those we deem worthy.

Christ told us not to judge others. Judging others withholds graces that we are given to share and not keep to ourselves as if it were a gift only meant for ourselves. Sharing the love of God is the objective of the command, love one another. Agape love is not ours to be hoarded.

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

New commandments for a new way for a new purpose that can only be discovered in Christ.

Isaiah 43:19

Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Do we perceive it? It cannot be perceived without faith, without the Word of Christ.

Romans 10:17

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

2 Timothy 2:15 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.