On this week's Ask Me Anything Episode, Ashley asks, "How can I forgive myself and heal after confessing my sin to God?"
This is such a good question. When we know that we’ve messed up, it can be easy for any of us to hold onto that guilt, sometimes for years, and it just eats away at us on the inside.
One amazing thing about our God is that Proverbs 28:13 tells us that when we confess our sins, we find mercy. That word mercy means that from God, we will find forgiveness, compassion, and love.
What amazing God we have. Instead of turning to us and yelling at us or telling us how He can’t believe that bad choices that we’ve made, He turns to us and says, “Daughter, I love you! I love you too much to leave you broken and where you are. When you walk with Me, you will find freedom in every area of your life!”
That forgiveness, that compassion, and mercy is great, but sometimes it’s not so easy to forgive ourselves for the things that we’ve done.
When we hold onto unforgiveness toward ourselves and we hold onto guilt, it causes us to hate ourselves. It causes us to be angry and irritable. It causes us to be insecure and to doubt our choices.
I don’t speak on this because I’m some kind of medical professional…I am not. I can speak on this, though, because I have been there.
All of the bad choices that I made, even if it was something as small as I forgot to finish my homework and now, I was rushing to get it done before class…I would pile all these choices up in my mind and beat myself up mentally. How could I do that? What was wrong with me?
It wasn’t until I finally gave all that over to God that I was able to become free.
A lot of times that guilt that we carry isn’t from something small like not finishing our homework, but a lot of times it comes from something we did or that was done to us that really rocked our world. How do we overcome the guilt of something like that?
How do we forgive ourselves? Ashley, I’m so thankful that you asked this question.
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