Good Guilt, Bad Guilt

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Mar 6, 2022 · 4m

READ: PSALM 51; 2 CORINTHIANS 7:8-13 Guilt is hard. Sometimes, Satan will try to convince us that we are guilty of something terrible when we really aren’t. This “bad guilt” tells us the lie that we are irredeemable, unlovable people. We can become discouraged and paralyzed, unable to do anything good. But in these times, we can come to Jesus, give our struggle over to Him in prayer, and rest knowing that we are made clean and new by Jesus’s death and resurrection. There are also times guilt can be helpful. The Holy Spirit uses “good guilt” to gently show us a specific way that we’ve…