He Forgives Guilt!

This news literally leapt of the page at me.  One of my daughters has voiced how she is convinced I try to make her feel guilty.  Not at all, it's just I've been so full of guilt, it ran over . . . But no more.  I am so thankful for this revelation!  I'm thinking so much guilt has really hindered my spiritual walk and reduced my capacity to receive Ruach HaKodesh more fully.

The Psalms are usually a part of my daily devotions.  I've read the Psalms and Proverbs monthly for a number of years, although I've had some inconsistencies.  An average of five Psalms a day and one Proverb is a great way to read them every month.  I've already confessed some lapses, but I can honestly say, I'm pretty sure I've read them at least a couple of hundred times.  Through the years, I've read from various translations but something was different this past week.  I the CJB, Psalm 32:5 reads as When I acknowledged my sin to you, when I stopped concealing my guilt, and said, "I will confess my offenses to ADONAI" then you, you forgave the guilt of my sin.  I saw a separation between sin and guilt.

I asked YHWH specifically to speak to me, to please show me something I hadn't seen, when I began this reading the other evening.   I know I've been forgiven for sin, I've repented!  Not only is it written in Scripture, but I have heard, audibly, that my sins are forgiven.  Sadly, I've been trying to rid myself of my guilt!  Holding on to guilt to feel guilty, isn't repenting of guilt, it's continuing in it!  How had I missed this?

Guilt is a bizarre, twisted version of self-focus.  When we sin, we are guilty, and we should have remorse for disobedience, but to carry guilt keeps us, a new creation, tied to our old self.  We cannot change the past, and if we have confessed our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  All these years of taking prayer requests before the throne and trusting my needs to Him, I've hung on to my guilt!

As I was reading the book of Acts in preparation for Shavu'ot, yet another verse leapt off the page.   Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of ADONAI;  Acts 3:19  Guilt is most unrefreshing!  YHWH actually blots out our sin by the blood of Y'hshuwah.  If I've been made sinless by His blood, it's well past time to let go of the guilt.  If I've repented and no longer walking in sin, it's time to let go of the guilt.  How in the world I've managed to have faith to trust so many things to Him, while clinging to this horribly heavy guilt is simply beyond me, but all glory to our Heavenly Father, He has revealed this.

Now, this is not license to continue in sin, as Paul said, EL forbid!  This is the recognition and confession that the blood of Y'hshuwah truly does take away sin and YHWH truly does make all things new!

Therefore if any man be in Messiah, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.  II Thessalonians 5:17