{"id":41009,"date":"2026-07-20T22:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41009"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:03:48","slug":"26-0721","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0721\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem of Unresolved Guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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What kind of person does unresolved guilt create? An anxious one, forever hiding, running, denying, pretending. As one man admitted: \u201cI was always living a lie for fear someone might see me for who I really was and think less of me.\u00a0 I hid behind my super spirituality but this lie was exhausting and anxiety producing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unresolved guilt will turn you into a miserable, weary, angry, fretful mess.\u00a0 In a psalm David wrote after his affair with Bathsheba, the king said, \u201cWhen I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long.\u00a0 Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me.\u00a0 My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat\u201d (Psalm 32:3-4 NLT).<\/p>\n

As Paul told Titus, \u201cGod\u2019s grace is the fertile soul out of which courage sprouts!\u00a0 God\u2019s readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation\u2019s available for everyone!\u201d (Titus 2:11, 15 MSG).<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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What kind of person does unresolved guilt create? An anxious one, forever hiding, running, denying, pretending. As one man admitted: \u201cI was always living a lie for fear someone might see me for who I really was and think less of me. I hid behind my super spirituality but this lie was exhausting and anxiety producing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unresolved guilt will turn you into a miserable, weary, angry, fretful mess. In a psalm David wrote after his affair with Bathsheba, the king said, \u201cWhen I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long. Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat\u201d (Psalm 32:3-4 NLT).<\/p>\n

As Paul told Titus, \u201cGod\u2019s grace is the fertile soul out of which courage sprouts! God\u2019s readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation\u2019s available for everyone!\u201d (Titus 2:11, 15 MSG).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41011,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41009\/revisions\/41011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}