The Master was always teaching that guilt is an evil emotion to be avoided like the very devil -- all guilt.
"But are we not to hate our sins?" a disciple said one day.
"When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself." - Anthony De Mello
When a trust has been broken, people on both sides have decisions to make about how to respond to the hurt they have suffered—or the pain they themselves have inflicted upon others.
What if there is no way to right the wrong? How do we fill the need to feel forgiven of our past sins or our most evil failures? Every time we look back and still feel guilty or wonder if it's been forgiven due to how great we feel you failed, we are saying that our failure is greater than what Jesus did for us.
What Satan tries to get us to do is to see our sin and failures as greater than the Blood of Jesus and consider it powerless against our sin. It becomes a stronghold against us.
Accept forgiveness for youself.
Learn from your mistakes.
The more you learn about yourself, the less likely you are to make the same mistake again.
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