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| ===Lesson=== | | ===Lesson=== |
− | Guilt can be a real [[paradox]]: you feel guilty when you don't feel guilty, yet you don't want to feel guilty in the first place. The resolution lies directly in a person's relationship with [[God]]. | + | [[Guilt]] can be a real [[paradox]]: you feel guilty when you don't feel guilty, yet you don't want to feel guilty in the first place. The resolution lies directly in a person's [[relationship]] with [[God]]. |
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| Guilt is the gas gauge of life; only when you are running on empty can God fill you with himself, and then there's no room left for the emptiness of guilt. | | Guilt is the gas gauge of life; only when you are running on empty can God fill you with himself, and then there's no room left for the emptiness of guilt. |
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− | Guilt has been balanced out by forgiveness. | + | Guilt has been [[balanced]] out by [[forgiveness]]. |
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− | Guilt is healthy only if it causes us to keep working at perfection. Guilt then, must be viewed as a temporary measure, to be set aside once its usefulness on a case by case basis has been expended and taken up again only when needed. | + | Guilt is healthy only if it causes us to keep working at [[perfection]]. Guilt then, must be viewed as a temporary measure, to be set aside once its usefulness on a case by case basis has been expended and taken up again only when needed. |
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− | Saint Paul in the epistle to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Letters_to_the_Romans&action=submit#Chapter_8 Romans (8:1,2)] reminds us of the fleeting usefulness of guilt by reminding us that there is now no more condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. | + | [[Paul, the Apostle|Saint Paul]] in the epistle to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Letters_to_the_Romans&#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans.2C_VIII Romans (8:1,2)] reminds us of the fleeting usefulness of guilt by reminding us that there is now no more [[condemnation]] to those who are in Christ [[Jesus]]. |
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− | If God does not condemn us why then should we condemn ourselves? | + | If God does not [[condemn]] us why then should we condemn ourselves? |
− | ==Note== | + | ===Note=== |
| Individual, West Virginia | | Individual, West Virginia |
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