In a recent devotional, guilt was the topic. It said that guilt (the emotion, not the fact that onemight beguilty of some offense) is not of God, and is not biblical.
So I was thinking, what lead the author to write that? If you have guilt over a sin for which you have asked forgiveness, does that mean you don't trust in God's forgiveness? Or perhaps your heart wasn't sincere enough when you asked for forgiveness?
In a recent devotional, guilt was the topic. It said that guilt (the emotion, not the fact that onemight beguilty of some offense) is not of God, and is not biblical.
So I was thinking, what lead the author to write that? If you have guilt over a sin for which you have asked forgiveness, does that mean you don't trust in God's forgiveness? Or perhaps your heart wasn't sincere enough when you asked for forgiveness?
Or was the author perhaps off base
Great topic Math teacher. Once when I was depressed the doctor tried putting me on anti depressants .I took them onl;y once because I did not like the way it was messing with my head. People get quilt and conviction messed up I think. I did some bad thinhs in life tha tI am very much ashamed of. No I didn't rape or murder anyone but still I used to feel guilty. To deal with guilt we need to have faith in God's Word thAt he is faithful and just to forgive us of all our sins. IF that doesn't work ..which I had an instance once about my divorce..then I would suggest a fast and get a once and for all answer from God. When you get your scriptural answer..STAND on it for the rest of your life.
Conviction is that check in your heart that every one gets. I was sitting by a parent today that wore a low cut top. My eyes were like a magnet. .. I quickly remembered the Dave Wilkerson warning about the spirit of Jezabel and did not look again. I kept my eyes focused on the ladies eyes and that was it. Conviction is good. It's like a light that guides us.
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Guilt is a positive influence, or ought to be viewed as such, in the lives of every individual whether they be members of thebody of Christor not. What does guilt represent? Guilt represents the divine within man. When we are sensitive enough to feel guilt, we have just become aware that we are greater than the problem we face. We are greater than the weakness we have. The presence of a feeling of guilt may say there is still a sense within us of that which is right. So let us not be too quick to get people to shy away from a sense of guilt, but let us encourage to use their awareness to change their lives.
In addition, if we are feeling to much guilt, this never comes from the Spirit of God. Satan can lie to us and tell us to feel bad and shame about ourselves to an extreme. The Spirit of God never works in extremes. False guilt and inappropriate guilt can be just as destructive or even more than ordinary sin. If we are in tune, God will help us to know when our repentance is complete and we should not carry guilt about our sin any further.
God Bless,
Porter
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Your welcome, your welcome! Sorry for the double dose!
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"The Lord commands us to be peacemakers. This is more than peace keeping. Peacemaking is an active thing that requires much greater effort at making peace happen rather than just keeping ones peace."
I don't think I would consider guilt and conviction as expressly the same thing. I guess it would depend on what stage one is in of doing a wrong thing. Also the fact of being guilty of something from the past that we have been forgiven for certainly does'nt mean that we should live in a frame of mind of guilt. Does it make sense that we should be able to admit our wrongs of the past (admit we were guilty) when occasion warrants, while at the same time live free from the inward nurturing of the guilt because we are forgiven in Christ.
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I was raised a Catholic so natuarllyguilt was an integral part of my upbringing. Looking back on my childhood I now realize Iwould havebeen a lot happierwithout that guilt.
Guilt, when applicable is an indicator that something wrong needs remedy, just like pain lets us know something is wrong. It can be ,at times misappropriated, when we are made to feel guilty about something legitimate. Our parents may have predisposed us to feel guilty about something that they personaly object to, but that has no other real basis for being wrong. For example, the saying that children are to be seen and not heard could make a child have a false sense of guilt about being lonely and in need of their parents attention--legitimate need and illegitimate guilt.Conversely, we may be conditioned to accept certain things that we should feel guilty about, but were conditioned to ignore. So, in my mind, the Word should be ( a proper understanding that is) teh determining factor for guilt, as well as right from wrong which would be or should be directly connected to guilt. The feeling and the actual reason for guilt may or may not line up. So, whether you do or don't doesn't mean you should or shouldn't--the standard is the Word.
How do you feel about guilt?
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Sorry for the double dose!
