Crushing the Voice of Guilt with Truth

“What about yesterday, hey?” We’ve all heard these words emanate from the depths of somewhere in us into the heart of our soul, for how ‘we weren’t good enough yesterday’.

These are conscious moments that either intuit pain for the truth that our consciousness bears or we’re like, pfft, enough of this already! Sometimes we feel beaten down by the truth.

What I’ve found in overcoming the nemeses that set themselves against me is the power in humbly starting over. It may take twenty times of starting and trying and failing, yet, beyond the guilt that would stifle our progress and certainly discourages us, we are only a few days away from a fresh confidence that catapults new progress. Just don’t give up.

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Here is a biblical approach to falling and failing:

Stomping on the voice of guilt is done in the immediate about-face as we walk right back in the direction of our dream.

God always honours a penitent heart; the broken and contrite heart God does not despise (Psalm 51:17). Indeed, God’s eternal prerogative is to draw close to us as we draw close. The truth is God’s always there and never leaves, but as we draw close through repentance, God is felt tangibly close and powerful.

The spirit of humility decrees this: those who try and fail keep rising. Their humility causes them to rise.

If pride were the problem, they could not bear to try and fail again. They would run in the direction of a feigned success. They would kid only themselves.

But not with humility. The spirit of resilience is humble. Not a single experience or day defines us. We’re defined over tens-of-thousands of days, not over a few. Whilst this is no excuse for not accounting for bad behaviour, we must be encouraged that God is the God of the seventy-second chance.

So, where that voice speaks forth the guilt of yesterday, crush it by turning with the truth: “Yes, but I’m not done yet.”

Of course, you’re not done yet. None of us are. How good is God that a new day shines forth each morning, with fresh possibilities, and virginal hope?

And even if nothing were to ever change, God admires our effort to change whenever we turn and face the truth.

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