Reflections

Dealing with Guilt

There can be no doubt that if we allow our thoughts and desires to focus on impurity and uncleanness, it will not be long before a cloud of guilt will descend upon our spirits. This guilt is responsible for a great degree of spiritual ill-health, and if unresolved can bring about serious damage and disruption to our personalities.

Some forms of  modern-day psychiatry approach this problem by trying to persuade the person concerned that he is more a victim than a violator of his conscience and he needs to re-educate himself so that he can accept a lower value system. But the problem is not so much that God's standards are too high- rather our performance is too low.

When we violate a spiritual principle, or transgress God's laws in any way, then God has arranged

that a cloud of guilt descends upon our spirits. This guilt is not intended to drive to despair but to draw us toward Him for deliverance. Only God has has the answer to guilt. It must be remembered

that I am talking here, not about false guilt but real guilt, the guilt that arises from a violation of God's

principles ans laws.

We can do several things with guilt when it descends upon our spirits. We can suppress it by attempting to persuade ourselves it is not there. We can suppress it and  try to keep it under control. Or we can confess it to God, ask for His cleansing and forgiveness and seek to live by His power in the future, so that we can be free from its stanglehold and control.