Women rail and flog themselves with self-defeating statements. Christian or non-Christin; Look at me; look at what I said, what I thought, what I did, and/or what I did not do. And by the way, they did not respond how I wanted them to. What is the matter with me? How can I be free to be me? What did I do wrong? I wonder, what they think of me? How do I let go and forgive myself?
How can I let go of my mental garbage to forgive others and become me?
Can you relate?
- Smack. Jab. Poke. Stuck. And the Land of Regrets wraps you up snugly in false guilt.
- Shame revisits and raises its ugly head against the Word, Does Jesus forgive me, will He?
- DOUBT enters.
- Then UNBELIEF, and a slap to the face to Jesus, like calling Him a liar. OUCH! It smells foul of the enemy’s ways.
WAKE UP precious woman if this is where you are at in life!
The enemy has YOU!
The Accuser, entices you in with self-doubt as He sniffs you out, and then stomps all-over-you and stops you in your tracks. Defeated, you live trapped in a sticky-stinking-woe-is-me-mentality. Ha, he laughs, I have her in my grasp. She will never come free of this, as she chooses not to believe this powerful Truth, that Jesus died on the cross to set her free and has forgiven her. I win. She’s deceived. And no good for the Kingdom sake. She’s a sour puss. She believes she’s not forgiven and stays stuck and trapped in bondage. And sits and soaks in self-pity.
Sin destroys.
Believing you know best, you ignore the Truth. A wall goes up within your heart, S-I-N. Your eyes and ears turn away from seeking and hearing God, with no open-flow communication. Your relationship with the Lord is blocked and impacts all relationships.
If you travel against the moral standard of the Word of God and choose to live opposite of His intentions, life will not work.
It’s rather simple, perhaps too much so as you wrestle with it. You make it your job to carry you. HARD, HEAVY-like lifting weights. I must pay for my sin, do penance to earn my way into redemption. If I whip hard enough with regrets or shame myself enough, I’ll stop sinning, again! That’s not Biblical. It’s full of pride and man and woman’s way. That never stops sin as you’ll believe it’s all you and what you did or don’t do.
God desires a broken heart, a changed way, a reversal of action, not a flogging or whipping of oneself. Repent means to change course and restore your relationship with the Lord. Scripture is clear, if we confess our sins, name it, be specific, lament it, God is faithful and forgives us. True. Believe. And actively choose to believe this one verse whenever you sin, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins…” (I John 1:9 NASB).
This Truth thrust you forward if you believe— He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Jesus said it, meant it, and does not lie.
Confess. Believe. Receive His forgiveness. Cleansed. Done.
Actively believe this Truth as you go forward!
- When you sin,
- confess,
- and actively believe you are forgiven.
- Wrap your arms around yourself,
- give a gentle love squeeze,
- and consider it a grace hug.
- Speak into your soul, I am forgiven, God forgives me, and I forgive myself.
Loving oneself comes with forgiving oneself.
Do you forgive yourself?
Will you forgive yourself?
It’s all grace.
