The Secret to Stop Feeling Guilty

Guilt makes so many decisions for us, every day. 

We feel guilty for what we did as children or in adolescence, and we fight to show that we have changed because we hate knowing that we were so careless and rude back then. 

For going off on that person. 

We know, after the fact, that they were not trying to annoy us, but we were just having a really bad day and didn’t hold back our frustration. 

Now they are hurt and we feel guilty for taking our anger out on them. 

We feel guilty if we spend too much time doing one thing and not another; fearing that we are not spending our time where it matters most. 

I would say that, 

Guilt is the enemy’s number one weapon against your purpose, 

If you’ll allow him to use it. 

Here is the difficult part… 

We cannot avoid guilt. 

Guilt is a feeling that God embedded into our conscience, to alert us when we have done something wrong. 

Guilt can be used as a weapon against us but it was created to trigger our compassion and love. 

Everything that has a good purpose, the devil uses to his advantage. 

Guilt, in the hands of the enemy, will be used to make you feel like you failed and there is no chance for recovery. 

The enemy will have you feeling like you are a terrible human being and that you will never be good. 

If guilt has you trapped in a prison cell, and the sentence is life imprisonment, then please keep reading. 

Guilt is most commonly used against you. 

It torments you and condemns you until you are so paralyzed mentally, that you question your identity and you fear making future decisions. 

Soon, you are feeling guilty when you are not guilty. 

Then, we are so overwhelmed with this feeling of guilt, that we search for why others are guilty, so we feel less guilty ourselves. 

But guilt is not all bad! 

Please allow me to tell you why we should feel guilty but not stay there! 

Feeling guilty and being guilty are two different things! 

To actually be guilty, requires that you break a law or do something wrong! 

I’m sure everyone reading this, including myself, can say that they have done something morally wrong. 

What about spiritually wrong? 

How well do you think we all kept God’s word? 

Click here to see what God’s law is. 

Some may say that they have never broken God’s law, however, that would be a lie. 

I’m not trying to make you feel more guilty; in fact, if you keep reading, I will show you the secret to true freedom from the guilt you already feel! 

It’s better we just face it!   

We have to get to the root of this instead of just look for excuses. 

I’m right there with you!  

“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,”   

Romans 3:23 NKJV  

Spiritually, we all have broken the law and we have done plenty wrong! 

Now what? 

We are sinners and we are guilty! 

We are in a court room and the Almighty Judge finds us guilty of violating the law and the sentence is life imprisonment! 

The sentence is the death penalty! 

We are guilty! 

Then… 

Someone steps up, before the gavel slams down and says: 

“I would like to pay the fine, no matter the cost; anything to free them!” 

The price is high, to release us from our sentence! 

Death is the only fitting sentence. 

That Someone says, 

“take all I have, take my very life if it saves them! 

“I will take on myself, their guilty verdict!” 

“Let them go free!” 

That someone is Jesus!  

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” 

Romans 6:23 NKJV 

“But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.” 

Isaiah 53:5 NKJV 

Because we are guilty, He took that verdict and He gave us innocence! 

We are guilty, and an innocent Man took our place, to make us innocent!  

If we have accepted God’s offer to pay our fine, 

Why do we still feel guilty,    

when we no longer are guilty,   

in the eyes of God?  

Because we know we are the ones who deserve that sentence. 

Though we are free from guilt and 100% forgiven in the eyes of God! 

He doesn’t see our crimes anymore! 

We have clean records now, yet we still feel guilt? 

Why must we still feel guilt every day, when we are not guilty anymore? 

Because we do not accept that our guilt really was covered. 

We are guilty, but God gave us a way to not pay the consequences of our iniquities. 

We see our actions against others or against God and we know that if the same thing happened to us, we would not be able to offer such forgiveness.   

We would be broken hearted if someone did to us what we have done to someone else.   

We want to be good to others but oftentimes that takes a backseat to us looking out for ourselves.   

When looking out for ourselves turns out to hurt someone else, we feel selfish and we are fully aware that if we were treated that way, we would be so hurt.  

Guilt triggers compassion for others.   

Oftentimes, instead of letting compassion settle in us and stir our hearts to love others and consider them before ourselves; we let the guilt stop us.   

We train our mind into believing we are failures.   

We hate ourselves and we spend hours thinking about how we are just as bad as we used to be and how we will never be better than the worst version of ourselves.       

We look for the ways other people have done worse so we can say that “everyone is like that; it’s normal.”   

We even start counting the ways we are innocent, so we never have to focus on the guilt.   

It is not supposed to be this way!    

We are meant to acknowledge our guilt but not let our guilt stop us.  

We are guilty.  

This is factual.   

However, God covered our guilt and shame with His love.   

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”   

I John 1:9 NKJV  

“Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy. He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea.”  

Micah 7:18-19 NKJV   

Our guilt should never run our lives.   

We can admit to what we have done, and realize that our guilt is covered in love! 

This is difficult to accept, but it helps us to love others!   

We need to come to a point where we are not trying to prove our innocence or letting our guilt paralyze us.    

We are only innocent because of Jesus!   

He took the list of our guilt and He wore every crime as He hung on that cross; to pay the price for all of them!   

We can fully accept His forgiveness and let His love lead us to forgive others and forgive ourselves!   

Forgiveness only comes to those who acknowledge their guilt though.   

I know it’s difficult and it’s painful!   

But it changes our hearts to not only be more like Jesus to others, but it finally sets us free from the weight of guilt that constantly torments us.  

“And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”      

II Corinthians 12:9 NKJV     

“We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind.”     

Isaiah 64:6 NLT       

““Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.”        

Isaiah 1:18 NKJV      

The power is not in denying the guilt.   

The power is not in letting guilt suffocate your purpose.    

The power is in knowing that our guilt is real but Jesus stood on our behalf, to make us white as snow!