I'm not a big fan of guilt. It's irritating! Every time I turn around, something is slinking around the corner that makes me feel guilty. What I eat or shouldn't, the amount I exercise - or dont, people which I should have reached out to but did not and those things I should have finished now but left until tomorrow or later. The list isn't ending as is the guilt and I know that I am not by myself in what I'm going through.
The Baltimore Sun newspaper has assembled an intensive group of stories they've written on the guilt folks experience, covering everything from mom guilt to survivors guilt which also includes people who have made it through the present recession with their job still intact and those who have lived through an aircraft crash when others did not. To Read More...
How to deal with guilt is the base question of a culture loaded with it, because many people are being burdened by their guilt. Guilt is an awful thing. Depending on the cause of your guilt, the resulting shame and remorse can make living life rather difficult, even debilitating if it gets overwhelming. There's no 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 sort of guilt, or better yet, not let ourselves take possession of it. Nevertheless, often guilt is justified when created by wrong, unethical or illegal behavior. If thats the case, what are the options?
In working out the best way to handle guilt, you could try and live with it, tell yourself it's in the past and whats done is done and go on with what is bound to be a less happy way to live life. Or you could try to justify or minimize it, referencing thirty different folks you know who have done what you probably did or worse, causing you to feel miles better in contrast. Or you might spend the remainder of your life doing penance for it? (Plenty of people do this without even realizing it.) If youve done something in your life you actually regret, you know these are not good options. Your guilt could eat you alive before you attain relief traveling down one of those highways.
A better possibility is to ask for leniency from the Person that is actually able to forgive you, your Heavenly Father. Guilt is sin and sin is anything 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 making reference to the cheating he had committed with Bathsheba and the successive murder of her partner when trying to hide it. Yes, there were people concerned in his sins but first and foremost his sins were against God. As a result it was God's clemency that he needed.
God pardons and forgives our sins and thats where the liberty from our guilt comes from. God, when he forgives, completely releases the offender from any farther punishment of the offense and God even goes as far as to not remember our sin. God can do that because He is God. Now, there still could be consequences from the sin you committed that can't be evaded; cheating on a exam could still result in failing the class, a unfaithful affair may still result in the wedding breaking up and lying to a supervisor could mean the end of a career but it does not mean those cannot ever be forgiven or pardoned.
If we've got a relationship with Our Lord, through His Son Jesus Christ, God guarantees us in I John 19. If we confess our sin He is faithful 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 does He cleanse us but He removes our guilt.
Our culture is superb at handling things we don't know how to repair. We manage disease and discomfort and suffering. We attempt to manage our anxiety and fear and even our guilt. We spend so much wasted energy on handling things that God desires to cure, deliver us from or forgive us of and set us free. Living with guilt isn't the way He desires for any person to live life. God paid the highest sacrifice possible, the passing of His Son Jesus Christ, for your forgiveness and release from your guilt. Why then, would God not welcome your asking to do so gladly?
To learn about pursing a relationship with your Heavenly Father and realizing His love which will truly give you freedom go to Living Life Set Free click on: How To Deal With Guilt.
How to Deal with Guilt video
The Baltimore Sun newspaper has assembled an intensive group of stories they've written on the guilt folks experience, covering everything from mom guilt to survivors guilt which also includes people who have made it through the present recession with their job still intact and those who have lived through an aircraft crash when others did not. To Read More...
How to deal with guilt is the base question of a culture loaded with it, because many people are being burdened by their guilt. Guilt is an awful thing. Depending on the cause of your guilt, the resulting shame and remorse can make living life rather difficult, even debilitating if it gets overwhelming. There's no 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 sort of guilt, or better yet, not let ourselves take possession of it. Nevertheless, often guilt is justified when created by wrong, unethical or illegal behavior. If thats the case, what are the options?
In working out the best way to handle guilt, you could try and live with it, tell yourself it's in the past and whats done is done and go on with what is bound to be a less happy way to live life. Or you could try to justify or minimize it, referencing thirty different folks you know who have done what you probably did or worse, causing you to feel miles better in contrast. Or you might spend the remainder of your life doing penance for it? (Plenty of people do this without even realizing it.) If youve done something in your life you actually regret, you know these are not good options. Your guilt could eat you alive before you attain relief traveling down one of those highways.
A better possibility is to ask for leniency from the Person that is actually able to forgive you, your Heavenly Father. Guilt is sin and sin is anything 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 making reference to the cheating he had committed with Bathsheba and the successive murder of her partner when trying to hide it. Yes, there were people concerned in his sins but first and foremost his sins were against God. As a result it was God's clemency that he needed.
God pardons and forgives our sins and thats where the liberty from our guilt comes from. God, when he forgives, completely releases the offender from any farther punishment of the offense and God even goes as far as to not remember our sin. God can do that because He is God. Now, there still could be consequences from the sin you committed that can't be evaded; cheating on a exam could still result in failing the class, a unfaithful affair may still result in the wedding breaking up and lying to a supervisor could mean the end of a career but it does not mean those cannot ever be forgiven or pardoned.
If we've got a relationship with Our Lord, through His Son Jesus Christ, God guarantees us in I John 19. If we confess our sin He is faithful 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 does He cleanse us but He removes our guilt.
Our culture is superb at handling things we don't know how to repair. We manage disease and discomfort and suffering. We attempt to manage our anxiety and fear and even our guilt. We spend so much wasted energy on handling things that God desires to cure, deliver us from or forgive us of and set us free. Living with guilt isn't the way He desires for any person to live life. God paid the highest sacrifice possible, the passing of His Son Jesus Christ, for your forgiveness and release from your guilt. Why then, would God not welcome your asking to do so gladly?
To learn about pursing a relationship with your Heavenly Father and realizing His love which will truly give you freedom go to Living Life Set Free click on: How To Deal With Guilt.
How to Deal with Guilt video
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