The pain is a beautiful gift to us. Without pain, we will never know if we are touching a hot or cold surface. We will end up hurting our bodies repeatedly beyond repair without a sense of pain. But we all hate pain. We suppress our headaches with tablets so that we can go back and do again what caused the headache. When we repeatedly suppress pain with medicines and intentionally do again what originally caused the pain to our body it leads to a much bigger problem.
What is Guilt?
Guilt and pain are almost the same. Nobody likes the feeling of guilt. Human conscious triggers guilt when we do something against the Godly moral code embedded in our minds. God created us in his image. God planted the human consciousness with his spiritual moral code. When we intentionally or
even unintentionally cross the boundaries of moral code and do something wrong the consciousness sends a warning message. The warning message is called guilt. Though the feeling is different for different people we all know what is guilt.
We should be thankful for the feeling of guilt. As pain sends the warning signs to protect our body, the guilty conscious send a warning message to protect our soul. Even a small kid knows stealing is wrong. No one needs to conduct classroom training to teach a child why stealing is wrong. Similar to how we respond to the smallest pain and get away from the source of pain we
should respond to the smallest guilty feeling and try to make
appropriate corrections in our life.
How to Deal with Guilt?
There are two ways to deal with a guilty conscious. We can either ask for forgiveness from God and take a firm decision not to repeat the mistake or try to ignore the guilty feeling by suppressing or ignoring it completely.
How Not to Deal with Guilt?
Dr. Paul Brand in his research with leprosy patients found out something astonishing. Leprosy never eats any man’s hands or feet. But it just creates numbness and we don’t feel the pain when our hands go numb. When there is no pain, we start abusing our hands and hurt them many times since we don’t feel anything. Finally, people lose their body parts by destroying them progressively over time. Similarly, any guilt which is suppressed will have a consequence. Our consciousness will become numb. Next time when we do the same mistake we might not get the same sharp feeling of guilt. A mistake which are repeated many times creates numbness in the human conscious. It pushes a man to a dangerous position. We will start abusing our souls when we don’t
feel the guilt and destroy it progressively without realizing it.
Right ways of dealing with Guilt
The right way of dealing with guilt is to face it and make appropriate corrections in life. The only healing medicine for guilt is forgiveness. Every mistake needs to be forgiven. For obtaining the forgiveness a price has to be paid. Jesus paid the price for our mistakes by shedding his precious blood. Bible says, But he (Jesus) was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds, we are healed. Yes. We are healed from our mistakes and our iniquities are forgiven because someone else already took all the punishments. His name is Jesus Christ.
Jesus paid the price for our mistakes so that we can receive forgiveness for free. How do we receive forgiveness when we don’t see God? It has to be received by believing. Bible says, God so loves the world, he gave his one and only son (Jesus Christ), whoever believes in him will have everlasting life.
My Dear Friend, Are you harboring guilt in your heart due to your past mistakes? Your mistake could have been a lie, gambling, cheating, immoral activity, drugs, or anything else. Do you think your mistakes can never be forgiven? Right now, God can forgive your past and give you peace in your life. Will you ask forgiveness and reconcile with God right now? Could you pray along with me?
Prayer
Dear Jesus, we ask forgiveness for our past mistakes. Please forgive us. Make us new through the precious blood you have shed on the cross. God help us to make appropriate corrections in our life so that we will repeat our mistakes. Help us to follow you with all our hearts and love you for the rest of our life. In Jesus’s name, we pray. Amen.
Dear Friend, Bible says, For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. God once forgives never remembers your past mistake and he removes it as far as the east is from the west. God looks at you as a righteous man once forgiven. He will take away your guilt. Now you are called righteous by His grace. No one accuses you. God himself redeemed you by paying the price.
Dear Friend, May God bless you and make you a blessing for many. May he be with you and guide you for the rest of your life.