The Bullet of Dealing with Sin: Guilt Acquired (Part 1)
Saint Isodor of Seville (560-630 A.D.) stated that “One who despairs of being pardoned for sin, damns himself by despair rather than by the sin he has committed.” One of the Bible’s greatest stories of sin and greatness backs up this statement.
David was king of Israel … he had everything. Yet, he chose to commit an immoral act with another man’s wife and then have the man murdered (II Samuel 11-12). The amazing thing is that God still called David “A man after My own heart.” Why? It wasn’t the fact that David never sinned that pleased God … for David did sin. All humans sin. David’s greatness lay in what he did about his sin. He grieved over it, confessed it and repented of it. The guilt of what David had done was about to erupt within him. Guilt must find a release or it will chew us to bits.
What is guilt? It is discovering the truth about ourselves and deciding we don’t like what we find. It is knowing what we ought to be … as employee, student, husband, wife, friend, etc. … but never being able to quite make it. Sometimes our failures are immense and our sense of worthlessness, despair and guilt almost overwhelm us. Hasn’t everyone at one time or another wished to go off and hide somewhere? Move to some hidden cabin? Let the rest of the world go by?
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