The Guilt Problem

The guilt feeling is the most uncomfortable feeling we can have. That is evident from all the things we do to avoid that “pain”: hiding it from others, denial to ourselves (repression) and to others (lying), blaming someone else or something else (projection), withdrawing from the offended and from others that are aware of our actions (separation), hardening ourselves (desensitizing), keeping our mind off of it (busyness, masking, substitution), laughing it off (minimizing it), defining sin out of existence (no standard, no breach of standard, no guilt).

The bread and fruit of the vine connect us with the only effective way of dealing with the guilt problem: forgiveness. In this observance we identify with the Guiltless One and affirm commitment to his life and purposes. That’s all God asks us to do, and his forgiveness removes our sin’s impact on our relationship to him and his intentions for us.