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How To Deal With Guilt; Living A Life Set Free in Only 10 Days!
I am certainly not a large fan of guilt. It’s annoying! Each time I turn around, something is lurking round the corner that makes me feel guilty. What I eat or should not, the amount I exercise – or do not, people which I should have called but did not and those things I should have completed today but left until tomorrow or later. The list isn’t ending as is the guilt and I know that I am not alone in what I’m going through.
The Baltimore Sun newspaper has compiled an in depth group of stories they’ve written on the guilt folks experience, including everything from mom and survivors guilt that includes people who’ve survived the present downturn in the economy with their job still untouched and people who have lived through an aircraft wreck when others didn’t. To Read More…
How to deal with guilt is the essential question of a culture laden with guilt, because lots of lives are being ruined by guilt. Guilt is an awful thing. Dependent on the reason behind your guilt, the resulting embarrassment and remorse can make living life rather difficult, even weakening if living gets to be too much. There isn’t any doubt that plenty of guilt is self-inflicted based primarily on impractical expectations by individuals or ourselves. We need to figure out how to let go of that kind of guilt, or even better, not let ourselves own it. But, often guilt is justified when caused by wrong, immoral or illegal behaviour. If thats what it is, what are the options?
In working out how to cope with guilt, you could try and live with guilt, remind yourself it is from the past and whats done is done and continue on with what is sure to be a less happy way to live life. Or you could attempt to excuse or minimise it, mentioning 30 different folks you know who’ve done what you did or worse, making you feel much better in comparison. Or you could use the rest of your life punishing yourself for it? (A lot of people do this without even realising it.) If youve done something in your life you really regret, you know these are not good options. Guilt could eat you alive before you find relief going down one of those paths.
A better possibility is to ask for leniency from the Person that is truly able to forgive you, your Heavenly Father. Guilt is sin and sin is whatever is contrary to what God would have us think, do or say! Therefore, what that implies then is that all sin we commit is directly against your Heavenly Father.
King David tells us in Psalm 51:4 when he asserts against you and you only have I sinned and done that which is malicious in your sight he was referring to the infidelity he had committed with Bathsheba and the subsequent murder of her partner when making an attempt to cover it up. Yes, there were people involved in his sins but most importantly his sins were against God. As a result it was God’s forgiveness that he required.
God pardons and forgives our sins and thats where the liberty from guilt arrives from. God, when he forgives, completely releases you from any farther punishment of the offense and God even goes as far as to forget what we did. God is able to accomplish that because He is God. Now, there still could be implications from sin that cannot be avoided; cheating on a exam could still result in failing the class, an adulterous affair may still result in the marriage breaking up and lying to a boss could mean the end of a job but it doesn’t mean those cannot ever be forgiven or pardoned.
If we have an intimacy with the Lord, through His Son, God promises us in I John nineteen. If we confess our sin He is loyal and just to forgive us of our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (everything not in compliance to His will in purpose, thought and action). Not only will He cleanse us but He removes our guilt.
Our culture is excellent at handling things we don’t know how to fix. We may manage disease and discomfort and suffering. We try and manage our fear and anxiety and even our guilt. We use so much useless time on handling things that God desires to cure, deliver us from or pardon us of and set us free. Living alongside guilt isn’t the way He intends for any person to live. God paid the highest price possible, the death of His Son Jesus, for your pardon and release from your guilt. Why then, would God not welcome your request to do so with open arms?
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