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Glad you asked this today
Yes GUILT Will Kick Our
Behinds! Been There
Done That Y’all
Oscar Smith
Friday 9/16/2022
Just take a deep breath and take in this reality. Guilt is dangerous because it destroys faith. The enemy of our soul is not at all interested in making Christians into adulterers, addicts or prostitutes. He is interested in one thing only: turning Christians into unbelievers. He uses the lusts of the body to bind the mind.
The enemy wants us to be so crushed with guilt we actually let go of our faith. You will find he wants us to doubt God’s faithfulness and think that nobody really cares, that we will live in misery and heartbreak, that we will always be a slave to our lusts, that God’s holiness is unreachable, that we are left alone to work out your own problems, that God no longer cares about our needs and feelings. If he can get us to the point of despair, he can flood us with unbelief, and then he has succeeded in his mission. The three simple steps toward atheism are guilt, doubt and unbelief.
Guilt can eat away at the spiritual vitality of a Christian like a raging cancer. It causes a person to lose control of life; it leads to a desire to quit or retire from spiritual activity; and, finally, it brings on physical pain and disease.
Like cancer, guilt feeds upon itself until all spiritual life is gone, and the end result is weakness and a sense of shame and failure.
The way to get rid of guilt is to get rid of sin, which sounds simple, but it is not. You don’t just make up your mind to “drop” that third party that has entered your life. Many have tried and found it didn’t work. You don’t just walk away from things that bind your heart.
The most important move we will ever make in our life is the move you we make right after we fail God. Will you believe the accuser’s lies and give up in despair, or will you allow yourself to receive the forgiving flow of God’s love?
Do you fear asking his forgiveness because you are not really sure you want to be free from that thing that binds you?
Do you want the Lord yet secretly long for something that is not lawfully yours? God is able to answer sincere prayer, to make you want to do His perfect will. Ask Him to make you want to fulfill His will.
AMEN.
