Condemnation?

Are you allowing condemnation into your life? Ask yourself the following questions.

-Do you relate to God as if your on some kind of permanent probation, suspecting that at any moment He is going to drag you by the hair back into disfavor.  

-When you read scripture , does it reveal the boundless love of Jesus or merely intensify your condemnation?

-Are you more aware of your sin than you are of God's grace given to you through the cross?  

Don't buy into the lie that wallowing in your shame is somehow pleasing to God, or that constant low-grade guilt is going to produce holiness in your life.  

Here's how we beat condemnation.  Confess our sin to God.....then believe in Him.  (1 John 1:9)

Many want to wallow in their shame and this is arrogant, proud, and downright self-righteous.  The way we overcome sin is by being too busy admiring the glorious Savior.  I have never beat sin by looking at the sin.  Telling someone to focus on their sin is like telling someone to drive on the freeway without taking their eyes off the rearview mirror.