Why We Shouldn’t Have a Guilty Conscience
Are you analytical?
After an important meeting, I wonder about what I said, how I could have said it better and if I should have said it at all.
If you’re in the car a lot like I am, that may be the place where your mind spins. But as Christians, cleansed by the blood of Christ, we have to be careful to not beat ourselves up over past sins.
The mistakes we’ve asked forgiveness for.
The ones that placed a death sentence on our lives, but because of Christ’s sacrifice, we’re purified.
If you still have a guilty conscience, it’s not because God placed it there. The enemy of your soul wants to imprison you. He wants you to live in defeat and continue to mourn over the past. He is happy when you sulk over shortcomings, so much so you can’t serve God.
In Hebrews 10:19 it says we should “draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.”
God cleanses us from our guilty consciences so why do we still feel guilty? It’s not from above.
We are pure now. Dressed in white.
It doesn’t mean we never sinned. It means he allows us into his presence as if we never sinned, because through Christ’s blood we are made clean. That’s grace.
During Holy Week, as we remember the sacrifice Jesus Christ made on the cross, let’s do as Scripture says, “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43:18-19)
Let’s thank God for the work done on the cross.
Let’s praise him for his amazing love and forgiveness.
Let’s, by faith, release the past and live victorious.
And as purified children of God, let’s embrace the present.