Thoughts for today

This morning, I was reading the One Year Bible daily reading and came across something that stood out to me. I am always behind or out of order there but I am reading! So Hebrews 10:1-3 is talking about the old covenant that God had with His people and about the method for making sacrifices. It says ‘they were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing.’ It goes on to say in verse 3 that if they could ‘they would have been stopped ... and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared.’ Here’s what stood out to me: feelings of guilt. Under the old covenant, the feelings of guilt never really went away. BUT. We no longer live under the old covenant. We have been brought into a NEW covenant and it is one that according to Hebrews is a single sacrifice ‘good for all time.’ This means that all feelings of guilt that remain are not because of Him. That means that we can dispose of guilt. We don’t have to carry those feelings anymore. No more mom guilt. No more ‘I blew it’ guilt. No more ‘I’m just not enough’ guilt. No more guilt! Accept the forgiveness and grace and know that He does NOT want you to experience guilt. Jesus came to carry the weight of guilt for the rest of your life! If you are feeling guilt, that’s not from Him. If you are having feelings of guilt even after you have been forgiven, then you need to remember the new covenant.  He came to give us life and hope and cleanse us perfectly. Isn’t that amazing?!