A Daily Devotional – Guilt – The Eternal Word
Comment: Living with guilt! While we all
suffer from time to time with guilt, it is not physically, spiritually or
mentally sustainable to hang on to daily life and be the ‘person’ you could be.
The reason that guilt is a crippler in all phases of life is because we cannot
forgive ourselves for something, or many somethings done in our past. We may be
forgiven by others, or maybe not. Also, we may have reached out to Jesus who
died for all sins (John 1:29), Being saved by grace through faith (Ephesians
2:8-9). Because we cannot forgive ourselves we are plagued by guilt and we fail
to live out (Ephesians 2:10).
Devotional:
In dealing with guilt we no doubt have heard all the “fixes” yet in our heart bitterness
(because it is deep) springs up from time to time and ruins many. Notice that
in the context of Hebrews 12:12-17. Guilt causes us to be spiritually lethargic.
Our mentality is weakened and our physical nature seeks the natural things of
the world. All of this is a reaction to self-guilt in the life of the believer,
it is a root of bitterness, it is SIN.
Is this serious? You and I know it is! The sin of
guilt is profane to God; in that while He has forgiven, we have not. Esau
literally ‘threw in the towel’ with his relationship with God and family. Guilt
cause people to seek God’s approval diligently, even with tears as it is a
shameful sin. God will not be found in this search, life in Christ ought to be
a blessing; instead it is a curse, Ephesians 2:10 is not being applied and
their works are rejected because they are not spiritually minded. Deep rooted
guilt fails to repent.
The apostle Paul provides a solution. In 2 Timothy
2:14-25 in his discourse to Timothy regarding “approved and disapproved workers
for Christ” he makes the following statement, “Be diligent to present YOURSELF approved to God, a worker who does not
need to be ashamed, rightly, dividing the Word of Truth”. Being ashamed is
guilt, the need for people to overcome guilt is large and the only way to be
successful is a diligent study of God’s faith in you and your faith in God in
Him.
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