Welcome to Paul Tripp's Wednesday's Word podcast.

I'm Dalton from the Paul Trip Ministries team,

and each week I'll read aloud Paul's popular Wednesday's Word devotional,

short, powerful reflections that connect the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

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This week, Paul reminds us that the weight of God's grace is greater than the weight of our guilt,

freeing believers from shame and giving them hope through Christ's

righteousness.

Here's this week's Wednesday's word.

Quote, Oh my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you.

My God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted

up to the heavens.

From the days of our fathers to this day we have been great in guilt.

And for our iniquities, we are kings and our priests have been given into the hands of

the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering,

and to utter shame as it is today." End quote. Ezra 9, 6 and 7. I need relief from the

unbearable weight of every wrong and foolish thing I've ever done in the days behind me,

that have showered down the years, dried up on life's hard ground, leaving an indelible stain of

guilt and regret. Each regret is a spot of infection on the cells of my heart, each one compounding

the disease of wrongs said and done until my weakened heart can barely love, laugh, and rejoice.

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