Victory Over Guilt

When you violate your conscience by doing something wrong, how do you feel? Feel guilty.

Feel guilty, right.

Do you ever have those same feelings when you haven't done anything wrong? A lot of people have.

In fact, a lot of people live under this cloud of guilt.

If you ask them why, sometimes they can tell you something that happened in the past or something that's going on.

But oftentimes they can't tell you why.

They just say, "I just feel guilty." Well, guilty about what? "Oh, I don't know.

I just feel that way." How long have you been feeling that way? "Oh, I've been feeling that way a long time." You don't know why you're feeling guilty? "No, I just guess everybody does." No, everybody doesn't.

So what happens is they live under this cloud of guilt.

They can't tell you why.

They just know it's there, and it's made their life miserable and hindered them in more ways than they realize.

And so when I think about that, and I think about so many people who do not realize why they've lost their joy, why they don't have a lot of assurance in life, no real confidence, not going anywhere, not trying to accomplish anything.

It's just, they're just sort of hanging in there.

It's like being in a slight fog.

Well, that's what I want to talk about in this message, and I want to talk about victory over guilt.

This is the second message in our series on healing damaged emotions.