No Guilt in Life

"There is a hope that burns within my heart, that gives me strength for every passing day."

I just need to surrender to that hope.

"When I'm stained with guilt and sin, He is there to lift me, heal me and forgive me, gives me the strength to stand again, stronger than I was before."

God doesn't cause guilt. He convicts us, we feel the guilt and we either do something about it or hide it. If we surrender that guilt to Christ, we are free, if we hide it, Satan has us in bondage. Guilt is a very strong force. Don't let it take over you life. The problem with guilt is that even when you have faced it, it still tries to come back and take you captive by haunting you. When that happens the only thing I can do is run from it and into God's Word.

"No guilt in life, no fear of death, this is the power of Christ in me"

Being a child of God, a Christ follower, a Christian, means we have to pack lightly. We cannot be weighed down by our past regrets, our present worries, and our futures fears. There isn't time for that, the fields are ripe for harvest. We have to work for the kingdom. If we regret and feel guilt from our past we have not truly surrendered our life to God's work, we haven't been cleansed and renewed by His love and mercy and amazing grace. If we worry about today what good can we make of it? If we fear what our future holds, how silly is that, since we cannot add a single second to our life by worrying? If anything, we lose it a part of our life by worrying. Instead we should be working one day at the time, one moment at a time, one second at a time. All we know is now, let us do what we can do now. That is all that matters.

Today, I choose to live free from guilt, I choose to not worry about my future, today, I choose to serve the LORD and go where He wants me to go. I've lived in darkness this past week. I've hidden from people it seems, I've wanted to be left alone, I wanted to just sit quietly in my room and be left alone, I didn't want to care for the needs of others, I didn't want to take the time to talk to people, I didn't want to take the time to just spend time with friends, I wanted to sulk and hide. Why? because I let my past in. I let my sin in. I let myself be exposed and I hated it. Oh the ugliness of my humanity, what wonder our Savior is, for saving a wretch like me, not from the world, but from myself.

I am free. Don't forget that Amber. I am free. Don't go back to your chains. You have been freed.

Each time I fall the harder it seems to get back up. God knows I will get up though, He knows I hate myself and I don't like being controlled in this way. He will lift me and pick of the shattered pieces, why? because He has a plan. Do I know what it is? No. But I know anything is good when I know I'm serving my King. :-)