When you feel ashamed or guilty
For the things you replay at night and wish you could undo. Guilt is not the last word.
Whatever you're carrying, it doesn't get the final word. There's a way to set it down for good - you don't have to earn your way back.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.”
No condemnation. Not less - none.
“As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.”
East and west never meet. That's how far it's been taken.
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
No stain is too deep for this kind of washing.
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”
Written by someone who had done something truly wrong - and was still heard.
“For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”
If God chooses not to remember it, you're allowed to stop replaying it.
God, I'm ashamed of what I've done and I can't undo it. I bring it to you honestly. Forgive me, wash me clean, and help me make right what I can. Teach me to live as someone who is forgiven. Amen.