2.29.2008

The tugging remorse

Guilt.
Surprisingly, people feel it a lot of the time.

It's honestly a major thing that can bring you farther from God.
People actually have guilt problems.

It can drag you down to feeling awful; hopeless and undeserving.
It stems from not accepting forgiveness, clinging to regretful actions that you won't let go of.
But what's the sense in remembering something like that-is it more significant than forgiveness?
Unneeded burdens are worse than any kind of disapproval...it would be much easier to let Him take your regrets from you, so you can move on to being free of that weight.

Guilt leads to want to improve your actions so that you don't ever experience what made you feel remorseful in the first place again. But a constant bombardment of improvements for yourself is never good.
Sure; you can learn your lesson, but always beating yourself up over things can create a tendency to bring yourself farther and farther into that deep dislike for how you are.

Which, by the way, is forgiven.

1 comment:

snap-crackle-pop said...

I actually wasn't wallowing in as intense a guilt as you were probably envisioning....

But I do apologize for being an a--

For asinine behavior.

=)