A Word about Guilt

GUILT.

It flattens a spirit like a bag of bricks thrown on your back. Guilt slows you down, sometimes paralyzing you, wrecking your life. I’m talking about the guilt that taunts, “You are a failure; you will never get it together.”

So we move slowly, aching all the way, heaped up in our failure for not doing all that we should be doing. We squirm in our skin because we want to please God, but why bother? We’ll just keep messing up. “I want to keep trying, but there’s no point. I’m just a mess.”

Gobs of fleshy, glorious, God-image messes, that’s what we are.

Guilt says, “Keep trying to get out of that mess (snicker); you never will. Try harder anyway. Oh, and you are disappointing God.”

Quiet that slithering voice of guilt for a minute and hear this truth: You, with unveiled face (He sees you, He knows you!), are being transformed into His image by His Spirit.

We all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.   2 CORINTHIANS 3:18, NIV

Your soul stands naked before Him, and there is no shame if you are in Christ Jesus. He sees you and He sees Jesus because your spirits are welded together. And He loves you. We are all a mess. We will all fail.

Stand up straight.

Let the bricks fall off your back.

Put one foot in front of the other and walk. You have the strength and the power of the Universe Painter inside you. He will, by His spirit, change you and mold you, in time, for His glory. You just walk it out in freedom.

You can’t lose His love.

So keep walking and give your spirit permission to breathe. You are free.