Let's be honest can we? If we are honest with one another we all have done things in our lives in which we are ashamed of. Some things are small while other things are big, maybe even catastrophic. We all have some junk in our lives, you know - those things that we don't like to think about and we certainly don't want to talk about. If we are really honest perhaps there are things that even the people closest to us don't know. We stuff it away in hopes that some day we'll forget it ever happened. Or at least we approach it as “out of sight – out of mind.” If we don't have to think about the junk then we don't have to deal with the junk. That might work for a little while but eventually we are going to have to face our junk because not dealing with it only leads to guilt.

Guilt that is not dealt with can lead to a low self image. We begin to think less of ourselves and we can feel the weight of our junk. But no matter how big, how much or what kind of junk we are carrying around and no matter how much what we've done has impacted the way other people feel about us or how we feel about ourselves - it hasn't changed how God feels about us. God loves us, he always has and he always will, and there's nothing we can do to change that. Paul tells us in the book of Romans that there is nothing (absolutely nothing) that can separate us from the love of God through Christ Jesus – not even our junk.