Guilty or not guilty?

I'm guilty of a lot of things. I've wasted time, said the wrong things, given in to temptation...let's not go on.

Sometimes the things I'm guilty of have dragged me down into the mud of hopelessness and self-loathing. I let my feelings give me forty lashes and only then do I remember grace.

I've never forgotten what a brilliant young preacher once said:

"Never remain in the hot waters of conviction, but let them push you into the loving arms of grace."

Are you resisting the arms of grace until you've paid your way there by letting guilt take over?

Do you know what grace means? Have you accepted what it means?

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So are we guilty? Yes.

Based on what we have done, we are guilty.

But based on what Someone Else did...eternally, we are pronounced...

Not guilty.