"Trust in God"

People that are sensitive and tender hearted know the pain and depth of their guilt. So much physical illness, emotional trauma and 'below par' living is the direct result of unresolved guilt! People have great feelings of inadequacy and their minds hold to past failures keeping them in their inadequacies. As long as guilt stays with us, spiritual growth is impossible.

Take some time and read what David said in Psa. 32:1-7. Until he sought and found forgiveness with God, David was down right miserable! As long as he refused to come into the presence of God and confess his guilt, he was wasting away. Do we realize and really believe that God delights in forgiveness? It thrills Him to no end to forgive the humble, sensitive soul that seeks His forgiveness. Just read Micah 7:18-19. Isaiah implores man to return to the Lord, call upon Him, forsaking our evil ways and the Lord will abundantly pardon (Isa. 55:6-7). God wants and loves to offer forgiveness!

To those sensitive in heart, it becomes difficult to come back to God, asking for forgiveness over and over. That's good and the way it should be. But listen, we have got to stop "acting" so humble!!! We need to learn to trust God and His pardon offered. God speaks about Himself as One willing, delighting and abundantly forgiving. Wrap your heart around that! We need to trust God for what He says about Himself and not look at our weak and failing lives. Jesus said heaven rejoices when one repents (Luke 15:7,10). Why can't we rejoice rather than look at our miserable failure thinking God will reject us? That's not reaching for His love and forgiveness. That is being self consumed, trusting in our own thoughts. We must learn to trust God for what He says about Himself!

Sometimes our failure and guilt has taken us so low that we think we have so little to offer the Lord. Once again, the focus is on us and that is what makes us weaker. Christ is thrilled when we offer ourselves back to Him, no matter how little we think we have. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (I John 1:9) It is sinful to not honor God and His Christ as He speaks about Himself! He says He is "faithful and righteous to forgive". How sinful is it for us to believe otherwise? Sensitive people are poor judges about themselves!!!! They look at their failures rather than the Christ who wants to forgive and make them into a new creation.

Bottom line is, we don't need to think ourselves as someone great, because we are sinful. We don't need to try to make ourselves sweet because we are anything less. We don't need to try to whitewash who we are but whatever else we do, do not sit in a state of guilt and judgment on yourself when Christ is waiting! Trust Christ to transform you! Trust God to raise you (Col. 2:12)! Above all, surrender your life, your heart to the Lord and take God at His word. That's the only way to overcome your burdened heart.