Have you ever ask yourself, what kind of person does unresolved guilt create? Well, the answer should have been an anxious one, forever hiding, running, denying, or pretending. As one man admitted, “I was always living a lie for fear someone might see me for who I really was and think less of me. I hid behind my super spirituality but this lie was exhausting and anxiety producing.”
You see, unsolved guilt will turn you into a miserable, weary, angry, fretful mess. In Psalm David probably wrote after his affair with Bathsheba saying this: “When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.” Psalm 32: 3 (KJV).
As the apostle Paul told Titus, God’s grace is the fertile soil out of which courage sprouts! “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men.” Titus 2: 11 (KJV). So, it you have any unresolved guilt, ask the Lord for forgiveness.
The next time you may fear the future, rejoice in the Lord’s sovereignty. Rejoice in what he has accomplished. Rejoice that he is able to do what you cannot do. Fill your mind with thoughts of God.
He is king, supreme ruler, absolute monarch, and overlord of all history. An arch of his eyebrow and a million angels will pivot and salute! Every throne is a footstool to his. Every crown is papier – mache next to his. He consults no advisers. He needs no congress or senate. He reports to no one. He is in charge, not us.
Sovereignty gives the saint the inside track to peace. Others may look at t3eh problems of the world and wring their hands. We see the problems of the world and bend our knees!