The Gift of Guilt: Episode 5
Episode #5: The Gift of Guilt
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Enjoy a complimentary quiet time printable on us here! Take the time to pause and be still with God today, and everyday.
P(ractice)A(pply)L(ive) Prompts:
Practice: Read John 16:8 – “And when he comes, he will convict the world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment.” (speaking of the Holy Spirit). Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit to His disciples when He departed. This is what would make it to their advantage that He departed from them. Jesus meant that the presence and work of the Holy Spirit would actually be better for believers than the physical, bodily presence of Jesus. When God ‘convicts our heart’, it means the Living Spirit is revealing to us a wrongdoing or sin, prompting us to feel remorse, repent, choose to change, by turning away from the behaviors. It can be a gentle nudge or loud clang from God urging us to align our actions with His will and experience freedom from the harm and destruction (which we may NOT even be able to see going on in our body and life).
Apply: Guilt is often God’s mercy in motion. God has created this Warning Sign, just as a warning light on a car dashboard signals a problem, to help us know that we have strayed from the High Way and violated God’s moral standards. Ask: Is this guilt leading me to ‘hide in shame’—or to ‘come clean’ in repentance? We invite you to do Quiet Time to be able to HEAR and SEE what is truly going on. Choose to FACE and DEAL with any situation before it gets bigger and worse. For when repent, we will experience and get to see how God helps us out.
Live: Instead of avoiding guilt, pray through it. Take ACTION steps. Take the AI route (Almighty Intelligence) instead of the ai route (avoiding and ignoring). We all know what path leads where. Choose the High Way. Start with Quiet Time. You can either choose to keep destroying your path (body and life) OR Build Forward with God’s Truth.