Guitly Conscience?

As followers of Christ, we are able to confess our sins to God and He will forgive them.  Hebrews 8:12 says: "For I will be merciful toward their iniquitites, I will remember their sins no more."  Once we confess our sins to God, he forgets them and doesn't hold them against us.  So why do I still feel guilty?  Sometimes even after I confess and make things right with God I still feel guitly about my past sins.



In my own life, I have found that when I feel this way it is often because I am not taking God at His word.  I have the head knowledge that I am forgiven, but until it reaches my heart, it doesn't allow me to live with a clear conscience.  In times like these I need to ask Him to help me to believe that I am forgiven and He loves and accepts me despite the sins I have committed.  Psalm 103:12 states "as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us."


If we have surrendered our life to Christ and His finished work on the cross, we don't have to feel guilty.  The price is paid!  Because He shed His precious blood, we are made new!  Romans 6:6 says "We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin."  I am so thankful for this wonderful truth.  I am no longer a slave to my sin because of what Christ did for me!