Feeling Guilty?

Have you sinned? Do you feel guilty about it? What are you going to do about that?

You could try…

Adam’s solution: Blame someone else (Genesis 3:11-12).
Aaron’s solution: Claim that it “just happened” and that you were hardly involved (Exodus 32:21-24).
Saul’s solution: Try to rationalize and justify your motives (1 Samuel 15:1-15).
David’s solution: Cover it up (2 Samuel 11).
Ahab’s solution: Attack those who are doing right in order to deflect attention from yourself (1 Kings 18:17-18).
The hypocrite’s solution: Keep repeating the sin until your conscience becomes seared and you no longer feel the guilt (1 Timothy 4:1-2).

You could try any of these. People often do. But these “solutions” don’t solve anything. They may provide a temporary (and false) sense of relief, but the problem — real guilt before a just and holy God — remains unchanged.

There is only one solution to the guilt of sin. It’s God’s solution: the forgiveness and cleansing that are available only in Jesus Christ. Confess your sin. Turn from it in repentance. Ask God’s forgiveness. And take comfort in His promise: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9).

“Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness;
According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity
And cleanse me from my sin” (Psalm 51:1-2).

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