--GUILT AND FORGIVENESS ~~

--"They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts.
---(Romans 2:15)

---"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
---[1 JOHN 1:9] -- angelwing

--[PLEASE READ/ Romans 2:12–16

---In his book Human Universals, anthropologist Donald Brown lists more than four hundred behaviors that he considers common across humanity. He includes such things as toys, jokes, dances, and proverbs, wariness of snakes, and tying things with string! Likewise, he believes all cultures have concepts of right and wrong, where generosity is praised, promises are valued, and things like meanness and murder understood to be wrong. We all have a sense of conscience, wherever we’re from.

The apostle Paul made a similar point many centuries ago. While God gave the Jewish people the Ten Commandments to clarify right from wrong, Paul noted that since gentiles could do right by obeying their conscience, God’s laws were evidently written on their hearts (Romans 2:14–15). But that didn’t mean people always did what was right. The gentiles rebelled against their conscience (1:32), the Jews broke the Law (2:17–24), leaving both guilty. But through faith in Jesus, God removes the death penalty from all our rule-breaking (3:23–26; 6:23).

Since God created all humans with a sense of right and wrong, each of us will likely feel some guilt over a bad thing we’ve done or a good thing we failed to do. When we confess those sins, God wipes away the guilt like a whiteboard wiped clean. All we have to do is ask Him—whoever we are, wherever we’re from.
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--"Jesus, I’ve failed to do right and succeeded in doing wrong. Forgive me. Thank You for dying my death so I don’t have to. Death has been defeated because You paid the price for my sins. Thank You, Lord."
--ODB/SV
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-[Friend, "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus. Jesus died as our propitiation for sin. " --[Romans 3: 23,24,25]

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]