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[dabro]

What does this sound like? I have Always desired to be morally perfect in all that I do. When I came to the cross I was on fire for God. Then all this guilt started to bottle up inside me. I would give into lust and was tempted to smoke pot. Both of these gave me a tremdous amount of guilt. I rememeber it took me like 7 day's to get over it. Almost like taking Pain killer's for a month and then coming down. It consumed me. I realized that every where there is sin. I felt a sense of worthlessness and unwanted by God. The guilt consumed me to the point that I gave up. Then the POCD hit, Then the theme about judgment. But I've tried coming back to the cross time and time again and I just keep failing. I don't know if this amount of guilt and shame is from me or God or satan.

 

[John B Jr.]

doesn't sound like Jesus

 

[shelovesChrist]

Guilt shows that you recognize something is wrong and feel bad about it. No one is perfect and no matter how bad we want to be perfect in everything we do for God, we will never be. But He loves us with all our faults--sometimes that's hard to grasp. If we backslide and have trouble dealing with temptation, we need to ask for the Holy Spirit, because it gives us strength against the lusts of the world. When you sincerely asked God to forgive you, He forgave you. But you have to thank Him for His mercy and forgive yourself. The devil wants us to feel that we are too unclean for God and wants us to throw in the towel before it's too soon, but Christ died for all the sins of the world so it's already done. Sometimes the things that I've done before I've got bring feelings of guilt and embarrassment, but thank Christ for repentance and forgiveness. Even after we repent for our sins we still might feel guilt, but do not let that guilt consume you. Keep going and praise the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and love.

Read the story in Mathew 18:21, when Peter asks Christ about forgiveness and how Christ gives him an example of the Lord's forgiveness. It truly moved me the other night. Praying =]

 

[gracealone]

Dabro,
You will never be morally perfect until in glory you get to completely shed your old nature. The key thing is that it is what you "desire".. and that's because you want to please your Savior.
The scripture teaches us that, "Though we fall we are not utterly cast down - for the Lord holds us in His hand." So when as a Christian we fall... and we will... we don't fall out of His hand we fall within it.
In comparison to a Holy God the reality of who we are, what we think, do etc. is going to have this effect:"Woe is me I am undone." There we stand again and again with a broken and contrite spirit. Just like the apostle Paul. "The very thing I should do I don't and the thing I don't want to do - I do." But God... those are two very important words... "But God" has made a way for us to have Christ's righteousness applied to our lives. Not because we deserve it but only because He is merciful and is willing and able to save us to the uttermost.
We can try over and over to take off our old man and clothe ourselves in righteounsess but we will always fail. He must do that work for us. It's His to do and we need only desire that He do it.
OCD complicates all of this because it takes our failures.. which seem to happen every day if we really scrutinize our hearts.. and uses them to accuse us that maybe, just maybe we haven't yet got it quite right. So then we become hyperscrupulous... trying so hard to be holy.
But it's His holiness and righteousness that we've been clothed in - not ours. Whether we feel forgiven or saved from our sin's does not prove anything. We've no choice but to place our hope in Him and press on. Or we can sit around stewing and ruminating in the doubt filled juices of our OCD which only serves to distact us from the work at hand.
Just keep walking toward Him Dabro. That is all He's asking of you. "Whosoever will... may come." That includes all of us on this forum.
Praying for you.
Mitzi

What does this sound like? I have Always desired to be morally perfect in all that I do. When I came to the cross I was on fire for God. Then all this guilt started to bottle up inside me. I would give into lust and was tempted to smoke pot. Both of these gave me a tremdous amount of guilt. I rememeber it took me like 7 day's to get over it. Almost like taking Pain killer's for a month and then coming down. It consumed me. I realized that every where there is sin. I felt a sense of worthlessness and unwanted by God. The guilt consumed me to the point that I gave up. Then the POCD hit, Then the theme about judgment. But I've tried coming back to the cross time and time again and I just keep failing. I don't know if this amount of guilt and shame is from me or God or satan.

 

[JamesAH]

If we were perfect we wouldn't need a Saviour huh. Because God knew ages before Creation we wouldn't get it right, He sent His only Son to die on the cross to remove sin and be righteous through Him. We still won't get it right until The Second Coming so be glad that there is a God Man that decided to take the burden of sin unto Himself to cleanse us from evil.

We are filthy dirty rags made clean by the power and blood of Christ

 

[Kristin E]

Sounds a lot like Satan...
He wants you to give up!
He just LOVES to hear those words or see those thoughts in your head saying "Give Up!" He takes pride into deceiving you into thinking your not worthy of God's Love...
When me and you both know your worthy! Obviously you are making some good steps towards picking up your cross and following God! Don't give up and let Satan win!

 

[shelovesChrist]

Sounds a lot like Satan...
He wants you to give up!
He just LOVES to hear those words or see those thoughts in your head saying "Give Up!" He takes pride into deceiving you into thinking your not worthy of God's Love...
When me and you both know your worthy! Obviously you are making some good steps towards picking up your cross and following God! Don't give up and let Satan win!

amen =]

 

[annrobert]

Jesus says whom the Son sets free is free indeed.


For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power , love and a sound mind.


There is therefor now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.


Though a righteous man falls many times , he will stand again, in psalms.



Jesus is annointed to heal the broken hearted and deliver the captives and to set at liberty those who are bruised.




Jesus leads us to still waters and restores our souls.


Jesus gives us forgiveness and life and mercy and peace and love and joy and hope.


Jesus invites us to come to Him for rest .

Jesus is our strength and our righteousness.



Jesus makes us grow .




Jesus will not crush a bruised reed, nor will He snuff out a smoking flax.


Jesus gives us hope and strengthens us and heals us .


Jesus sets our feet upon a rock and restores our souls.



we can run to Jesus for help and protection and healing at any time.



Jesus loves you with an everlasting love Dabro, He holds you in His hand.