Not being a big fan of guilt. It's upsetting! Each 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 do not, people I should have called but didn't and those things I should have completed now but left until tomorrow or later. The list isn't ending as is the guilt and I know I am not by myself in what I'm going through.
The Baltimore Sun newspaper has compiled an intensive group of stories they've written on the guilt individuals experience, covering everything from mom guilt to survivors guilt which also includes people who've survived the existing recession with their employment still intact and those who have lived through an aircraft wreck when others didn't. To Read More...
How to deal with guilt is the base question of a culture charged with it, because many people are being burdened by their guilt. Guilt is a horrible thing. Dependent on the reason behind your guilt, the resulting embarrassment and remorse can make living life rather hard, even debilitating if life gets overwhelming. There is no question that a lot of guilt is self-inflicted based primarily on unrealistic expectations by individuals or ourselves. We need to learn how to let go of that sort of guilt, or better yet, not let ourselves take possession of it. However, occasionally guilt is justified when caused by wrong, unethical or illegal behavior. If thats the case, what are the options?
In working out the best way to cope with guilt, you could try and live with it, remind yourself it's from the past and whats finished is finished and go on with what is bound to be not as happy way to live life. Or you could try to excuse or decrease it, mentioning thirty different people you know who've done what you probably did or worse, making you feel much better by comparison. Or you could use the rest of your life punishing yourself for it? (A lot of folks do this without even realising it.) If you have done something in your life you actually feel bad for, you know these are not wonderful options. Guilt could eat you alive before you achieve relief traveling down one of those paths.
A better choice is to ask for clemency from the One who is truly able to pardon you, God Himself. What causes guilt is sin and sin is anything contrary to what God would have us think, do or say! So, what that implies then is that all sin we commit is ultimately against your Heavenly Father.
King David writes in Psalm 51:4 when he asserts against you and you only have I sinned and done that which is evil in your sight he was talking about the adultery he had committed with Bathsheba and the successive murder of her husband 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 forgiveness that he needed.
God not only forgives but He pardons and thats where the liberty from guilt comes from. God, when he forgives, officially releases the offender from any further punishment of the offense and God even goes as far as to not remember what we did. God can do that because He is God. Now, there still could be results from the sin you committed that can't be avoided; cheating on a exam could still result in failing the class, an adulterous affair may still result in the wedding breaking up and not being honest 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 God, thru His Son Jesus Christ, God promises us in I John 19. If we confess our sin He is loyal and just to pardon us of our sin and to clean us from all unrighteousness (everything not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought and action). Not only will He clean us but He removes our guilt.
Our culture is very good at managing things we don't know how to repair. We may manage illness and pain and suffering. We attempt to manage our fear and anxiety and even our guilt. We use so much useless time on handling things that He wants to fix, deliver us from or excuse us of and give us freedom in this life. Existing with guilt is not the way He intends for anyone to live life. He paid the ultimate sacrifice possible, the demise of His Son Jesus, for your forgiveness and release from your guilt. Why then, would God not welcome your request to do so gladly?
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