Shatter the Wall of Condemnation
Shame and guilt are not good luggage. These invisible enemies are heavy loads. 📦
I call them enemies because they eat away at a person, infecting their lives in various ways and hold them prisoner to a life of doubts, fears, anxieties, insecurities, feelings of unworthiness and more....
The biggest problem though is that they become barriers. Barriers to God. Not because God holds us to ransom over our wrongdoings, absolutely not. Once we come to Him, confess our sin and ask for forgiveness, He is faithful to forgive us. In fact He chooses not to remember our sins. The bible tells us, He remembers our sins no more. He puts them as far away as the east is from the west (Ps 103)
He does this because once we give them to Him, they're not ours anymore. Jesus took the penalty of that sin on the cross.
Once we are 'in Jesus', meaning we belong to Him because we live for Him, then there's no condemnation for our wrongs.
If there's no condemnation, there's no guilt, no shame. There's freedom from those taskmasters.
The verse for today is liberation for those in Jesus. If you're not in Him, there's a way to be free. Find Jesus!!!!! That's really good news.
But the next verse that follows is just as important.
"Therefore there is NOW no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death."
The capitalisation there is my emphasis, because we have instant freedom now.
Don't carry the condemnation of past sins. God isn't holding them against you. He sees you perfectly clean, perfectly restored. And when we continue carrying them in our hearts, they'll form a barrier between us and God. We're free from the law of sin and death. Why's that so important? Because the wages that sin pays, is death. So if we let that condemnation and the guilt continue unchecked, we will continue to slowly ebb away from God as that barrier becomes bigger and stronger, we'll put ourselves back under the law of sin and death.
If God doesn't condemn us, don't condemn yourself.