Midweek Tweak

Nobody wants to wear a "dunce cap."  I doubt they're used any longer in school - the humiliation and isolation involved in this practice would not meet the approval of current culture.  As a counselor, and a person who's never actually donned a dunce cap, I can only imagine the damage...

So why do we voluntarily do this to ourselves?  We fill our minds with negative self dialogue, fill our conversations with words of self-disdain and defeat, fill our very prayers with shame and guilt rather than gratitude for the mercy and grace we will find in the moment of repentance.  Do you feel the rim of that dunce cap now?  I have.

Thing is, Romans 8 tells us that there's no longer condemnation for those who are in Christ.  None.

Romans 8 also tells us that nothing can separate believers from the love of God.  Nothing.

Midweek Tweak
When you find yourself in a moment of dunce cap thinking, speaking, or acting, rise up out of that corner!  Replace that cap with a garland of truth, the helmet of salvation, and remind yourself Whose you are.  No matter what has you "dunce'd," denounce it.  No matter what lies the enemy is telling you, fight with faith, attack with truth, and then dismiss with authority the accuser's claim to your attention.  Nobody wants to wear the dunce cap; and Jesus paid the penalty so you won't.