How To Deal With Guilt; Living A Life Of Freedom in Only Ten Days!

I'm not a large fan of guilt. It's annoying! Every time I turn around, something is skulking around the corner that makes me feel guilty. What I eat or should not, how much I exercise - or dont, folks I should have called but didn't and the things I could have finished today but left until tomorrow or later. The list is rarely ending as is the guilt and I'm aware that I am not by myself in what I'm going through.

The Baltimore Sun newspaper has assembled an extensive group of stories they have written on the guilt people experience, covering everything from mom guilt to survivors guilt that includes individuals who've made it through the current recession with their employment still untouched and those who have lived through an aircraft wreck when others died. To Read More...

How to deal with guilt is the essential question of a world charged with guilt, because lots of lives are being burdened by guilt. Guilt is an awful thing. Depending on the cause of your guilt, the ensuing shame and remorse can make living life rather hard, even debilitating if it gets to be too much. There is no question that plenty of guilt is self-inflicted based primarily on unrealistic expectations by others or ourselves. We want to figure out how to let go of that kind of guilt, or better yet, not let ourselves own it. However, occasionally guilt is reasonable when created by wrong, immoral or illegal behavior. If thats the case, what are the options we have?

In working out the best way to deal with guilt, you could try and live with guilt, tell yourself it is from the past and whats finished is finished and move on with what is sure to be a less happy way to live life. Or you could try to explain or decrease it, referencing thirty different folks you know who've done what you did or worse, making you feel much better by comparison. Or you could spend the remainder of your time in life doing penance for it? (Lots of folks do this without even realising it.) If youve done something in your life you actually feel bad for, you know none of these are outstanding options. Guilt could eat you alive before you find relief going down one of those highways.

A better choice is to seek forgiveness from the One who is really able to pardon you, your Heavenly Father. Guilt is sin and sin is whatever is in contrast to what God would have us think, do or say! Therefore, what that suggests then is that all sin is ultimately against God.

King David states in the 51st chapter verse 4 of Psalms when he says against you and you only have I sinned and done that which is malicious in your sight he was talking about the adultery he had committed with Bathsheba and the subsequent murder of her partner when making an attempt to hide it. Yes, there were individuals concerned in his sins but first and foremost his sins were against God. As a consequence it was God's absolution that he required.

God forgives and pardons us and thats where the liberty from guilt arrives from. God, when he forgives, completely releases the offender from any farther punishment of the sin and God even goes so far as to not remember what we did. God can accomplish that because He is God. Now, there still could be implications from the sin you committed that cannot be evaded; 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 God, through His Son Jesus Christ, God guarantees us in I John 19. If we confess our sin He is trustworthy and just to forgive us of our sin and to clean us from all unrighteousness (everything not in compliance to His will in purpose, thought and action). Not only does He clean us but He removes our guilt.

Our world is very good at managing things we do not know how to fix. We may manage illness and discomfort and suffering. We try and manage our fear and anxiety and even our guilt. We spend so much useless time on managing things that He desires to heal, deliver us from or forgive us of and give us freedom in this life. Living with guilt is not the way God intends for any person to live. He paid the highest price possible, the passing of His Son Jesus Christ, 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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