How to deal with Guilt and have a Blameless Conscience

There are those specific moments in your life when you’ve done something wrong. You know it and you feel something tugging somewhere in you – perhaps in your soul. People call it guilt. Most of the time, we don’t want to face it. So how do we deal with guilt? More importantly, how do we achieve a blameless conscience?

This entry is derived from and was inspired by the preaching of pastor Peter Tan-chi on October 2, 2011

Blessed is the one
   whose transgressions are forgiven,
   whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the one
   whose sin the LORD does not count against them
   and in whose spirit is no deceit.

When I kept silent,
   my bones wasted away
   through my groaning all day long.

For day and night
   your hand was heavy on me;
my strength was sapped
   as in the heat of summer.

Then I acknowledged my sin to you
   and did not cover up my iniquity.

I said, “I will confess
   my transgressions to the LORD.”
And you forgave
   the guilt of my sin.

Therefore let all the faithful pray to you
   while you may be found;
surely the rising of the mighty waters
   will not reach them.

You are my hiding place;
   you will protect me from trouble
   and surround me with songs of deliverance.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
   I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.

Do not be like the horse or the mule,
   which have no understanding
but must be controlled by bit and bridle
   or they will not come to you.
Many are the woes of the wicked,
   but the LORD’s unfailing love
   surrounds the one who trusts in him.

Rejoice in the LORD and be glad, you righteous;
   sing, all you who are upright in heart!

- Psalm 32 of King David of Israel

In this chapter, we see king David telling his story of how it felt to be burdened with guilt. You see, guilt varies on its heaviness  depending on the weight of the sin you have decided to do. Guilt crept on to David as he committed adultery with a married woman, Bathsheba, planned the death of her husband Uriah, and took her to be one of his many wives. Did David love her? Yes he did. But that doesn’t justify anything. Love never justifies sin. Only death does – that’s why Christ had to die for our stead.

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