Never again will you be called “The Forsaken City” or “The Desolate Land.” Your new name will be “The City of God’s Delight” and “The Bride of God,” for the Lord delights in you and will claim you as his bride. -Isaiah 62:4 NLT

Has life left you with labels that leave you empty? Hopeless? Without meaning? Unworthy?

Maybe it was life or the people in it that dealt the blows leading to those labels. Or maybe it was your own choices that gave you cause to place the labels upon yourself.

Maybe it was the betrayal of someone you trusted.
The loss of a job.
Or when you followed the world and its ways instead of God and His ways.

For each of us the story is different. The logistics all unique. But the shame that finds its way into the crevices of our soul is quite similar. It grows insidiously and leads us to behave in ways that do not bring out our best. Sometimes we hide from the world or other times we come out swinging aggressively to protect ourselves. Either way, it’s a survival strategy that doesn’t lead us to the fullness of God’s love and grace.

But there is a way to walk out of that shame. A way to claim the identity as a child of God and live in the fullness of His love and grace. I don’t just say that because it sounds good, either. I say that because it’s right there in the Word of God and because I’ve lived it. I’ve lived labels and shame and then I lived the redemption provided by God with His love and grace.

It's the reason for my hope.

And it can be yours, too. Join me as I share with you a powerful strategy toward trading that label of emptiness for one filled with hope, meaning, and purpose. Together we can learn to relish in the truth that God delights in us!