Have you
had your Joy Juice today? Let the joy of
the Lord saturate you with peace and boldness to face the day!
We all
experience the unwanted, undesired, uncomfortable emotion called guilt. When we
make wrong choices, our conscience kicks in and serves up a generous portion of
that bitter reward! One way to avoid guilt completely would be to live a
perfect life! REALITY CHECK! Not one of us can do that! Jesus was the one and
only man who walked this earth that was perfection, personified.
So if we
are not perfect---we will make wrong choices.
And we will experience guilt along the way. Some of us have learned to
deal with guilt in our lives by using a technique that Adam and Eve used in the
Garden of Eden.
Rob Renfroe
(in his book The Joy Stealers) explains: “God placed Adam and Eve in
a garden paradise. Everything was good. In fact, it was VERY good until they
did the one thing God told them not to do.
Eve ate from the one tree that God had said was off limits. Then she
gave the fruit to Adam, and he was only too happy to do what God had told him
not to do.” IN WALKS GUILT….and what did
they do? They played the “Blame Game”.
Adam blamed Eve; Eve blamed the Serpent; Adam even blamed God for giving
him Eve. Have you ever played that game?
Rather than choosing to blame others for our wrong choices, may we
accept responsibility and seek God’s wisdom & the joy of forgiveness.
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