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This article was posted on Tuesday, July 29, 2008
SELF- DESTRUCTIVE WAYS
(Brennan Manning)
When we wallow in guilt, remorse and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God’s gift of grace.
Preoccupation with self is always a major component of unhealthy guilt and recrimination. It stirs our emotions, churning in self-destructive ways, closes us in upon a mighty citadel of self, leads to depression and despair, and preempts the compassionate presence of God. The language of unhealthy guilt is harsh. It is demanding, abusing, criticizing, rejecting, blaming, condemning, reproaching and scolding. It is one of the impatience and chastisement. Christians are shocked and horrified because they have failed. Unhealthy guilt becomes bigger than life. The image of the childhood story “Chicken Little” comes to mind. Guilt becomes the experience in which people feel the sky is falling.
Yes, we feel guilty over sins, but healthy guilt is one that acknowledges the wrong done and feels remorse, but then is free to embrace the forgiveness that has been offered. Healthy guilt focuses on the realization that all has been forgiven, the wrong has been paid for and redeemed from sins by our Lord and Savior JESUS CHRIST.
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