Self-help books centering around mental health & wellbeing are very popular these days. Many instruct you in how to, “forgive yourself in 12 easy steps” or something like it. But the fatal flaw in all these types of books is this – you can’t forgive yourself…only God can. So instead, there’s an endless vicious cycle within you of declaring you’ve forgiven yourself…only to be bombarded with guilt, shame, and despair…because you really can’t. So things like, “I will never be able to forgive myself, or similar words, slowly become self-fulfilling prophecies as you struggle on. But stop for a moment – the Scripture here in Isaiah tells us that God Himself wipes away, and will never recollect or even mention our sins again … so it can’t be God that’s heaping shame & guilt on our heads for a sin that we’ve repented of and asked forgiveness for. No, rather it’s the accuser of the brethren, the devil, who doesn’t want us to have inner peace & the reassurance that God’s forgiveness is complete, total, case closed.
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