Taking down our Walls.

I saw this on facebook, when I woke up this morning, and it just hit me, and I had to quote it and use it in my blog this morning.  ‎"Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down".  Some people might say well people just do that for attention getting.  Well that might be true to a point, but when we walk into the doors of a church, we are walking into a spiritual hospital, where we are supposed to be healed of our past, healed of our spiritual sicknesses, our guilt, shame, mistakes, not only healed but forgiving of our past sins, and mistakes.  I know what people are going to say well the church is not the building the church are the people, and yes we are the church, so why don't we do what that statement says.  Get to know people well enough to show that we love and care for them, than they will break their walls down.  Too many people, walk into the church, get to know people on the entry level of what they do for work, are they married, do they have kids, etc, but they don't get to know them beyond that.  They walk out the doors and don't talk to them till the following week.  Than you don't see that individual for months on end, and you forget about them, because you don't truly know who they are, what their going through or dealing with.  Than we wonder why churches are getting smaller.  

Though sometimes people are too ashamed and to embarrassed of what we have done in our past to come out and tell others what that is. Yes when we sin we do not have to tell others what we have done, because we tell God what that sin is.  Doesn't it help when we talk with someone, about what has happened in our past that the guilt feeling or the heaviness we feel leaves.  I think sometimes, we have the feeling that God sometimes hangs those sins, or the past mistakes over our heads, and we forget that once we have asked for forgiveness, that it is no longer their.  He wipes the slate clean of all of what we have done in our past.   Even though we have asked for forgiveness, of those sins, we still hold on to them, maybe not because we still feel guilty, but maybe because we wonder will we do them again?  Hebrews is the chapter of faith, because in most verses it talks about faith, and in verse 30, it says By Faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled the for seven days. Jeremiah 29:11 For I know that God has a plan and a purpose for our life, plans to prosper us, and not to harm us but to give us a hope and a future.  God help us to take down our walls.