Be Free of Your Guilt
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)
When God forgives us our sins, and we are sincerely sorry that we have offended God, then we have God’s assurance that He has forgiven us fully.
He will not hold us guilty. We don’t have to condemn our conscience.
Don’t carry the burden of past sins with you.
You may have committed sins, made mistakes, and failed.
But when God forgives, He forgives graciously and abundantly.
We don’t have to carry our guilt with us.
Jesus died on the cross so that our sins, past, present, and future are paid in full.
Our present sins break fellowship with God. But if we come before Him and confess to Him, we can be freed of our guilt.
Some Christians still carry this burden of guilt with them. “I have failed. I have done wrong. I have been foolish,” they say.
God wants us to know that our past has no power over us and that we can let go of it because we have been renewed by His love and redeeming grace.
Thomas doubted Jesus. Peter denied Jesus. The disciples forsook Him.
But Jesus came back to them with His commission for them to be His apostles.
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil 3:13-14)
Move beyond the guilt. Sincerely repent. Accept God’s mercies and love.
Tell yourself, “I am forgiven, cleansed, justified, and sanctified by His Spirit. I am saved to serve Him. There is a purpose for me to fulfill in this life. I want to glorify Him.”
(MT)