How to Glorify God When You Have Emotion? Today's emotion is Guilt/guilty. The title of Romans 3:1 is; All the World Guilty. Wow, what a statement that is that the whole world is guilty. So, start off with we are all guilty. But what do we have to be guilty of our past, present, and our future or the thought we just had or letting something slip that we shouldn't have said or done. It can be all these things even feeling guilty about not being worthy of being a Jesus follower.
In John 3:17 it says, For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. We will all struggle to get rid of guilt. The biggest thing that creates guilt is our past and what happened in our past. We often get before Jesus and think we are not worthy of being in His presence because we feel guilty because of our past. Our past holds us back because of guilt and other things but I'm only going to talk about guilt.
Being guilty is a negative emotion and can lead to death. you can feel so guilty that you feel unworthy of living, let alone be a follower of Jesus. I believe the devil wants you to feel guilty for he likes it when you are guilty because he can use that against you. (side note devil cannot use positive emotions for his will). Remember the devil will do all he has to get you to not worship Jesus.
We all have a past and in that past, it has some things that we wish we could change and feel guilty about. if you say you don't you are lying and that is a whole different message. be honest about this and know that we feel guilty at some point in our lives. so don't ever feel that you are alone in feeling this way. But what are we do this guilty emotion we have
Well, let's take a look at Psalm 46:1, God is our refuge and strength, A very ready help in trouble. The biggest thing we will face in life is the fact that we do not completely trust in God and for Him to help us overcome it. It is He who is there to help us in our times of trouble. but we do not take that help because we are the problem of why we don't overcome our guilt. We are to completely trust In God and His help to overcome it. We are not to let this negative emotion take root in our lives, but to let Jesus help us overcome it.
So how do we Glorify Jesus when we have this emotion in our lives? The answer is simple and is found in what we just talked about, give it up to God and completely trust in God and that he will help us overcome. We need to shout it out and call Guilt what it is and repent of that guilt and move on. We always pray for God to help and take away something like guilt then we take it back. Once you give it up to God let him fight the battle for you.
Though a negative emotion may last for a night, joy comes in the morning.
All bible verses are taken from the NASB
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