Guilt…No Thank You!

Do you carry around guilt? Does guilty remorse cling to you like a wet blanket? Is guilt a mechanism easily used against you?

Here’s some good news! Guilt isn’t from God! It’s a tool the enemy uses to shame us into hiding our faces from God, and even other people.

I don’t know about you, but I can wrap myself in a cocoon of guilt in a nanosecond! Forms of guilt have manipulated me. I have tortured myself shamelessly over guilt and have gotten nowhere in doing so except hurting myself!

1 John 1:9 ESV “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Roman 8:1 ESV “There is therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”

2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV “For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.”

Think about this last verse; godly grief produces repentance! Worldly grief causes death!

What is Godly grief, I believe it to be our spirit that is grieved at the works of our hands, mouths, thoughts, actions, and attitudes. It’s the heaviness that weighs on us from The Holy Spirit.

So, we pray our wrongs, sincerely asking for forgiveness, and have the strength to ask forgiveness of those we might have wronged or right a situation; we ask for forgiveness of our sins. The Word tells us we are washed clean, and our trespasses forgiven. Peace and Freedom!

What is Wordly grief, Worldly grief produces death! It tells us we are wrong, bad, ugly, cruel, and hopeless! Death of peace. Death of situations that go unrectified. Death of relationships, partnerships, and or friendships.

World grief will eventually turn into worldly justification, self-warrants, and anger! I deserve to feel this way, place some blame on someone else! I did what I had to do, it’s a dog-eat-dog world. If I didn’t say something someone else would have…so on and so forth! See the death creeping in?

Isaiah 6:7 ESV “And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

That new is you and me being set free from guilt! We may not be set free from those who try and trap us in their guilt trips but we have God’s Word that tells us otherwise. ☺️