“I can’t believe I did that!” Do you have any particular sins or weaknesses that you constantly struggle with? Do you often feel guilty about something you have done? Do you constantly look to your failures and sins, and condemn yourself?

Then you do not understand the grace of God.

When you are occupied with your sins and failures, you are worrying about something that God has already condemned and taken care of! Even Paul struggled with this:

Romans 7:20

20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, (nobody wants to sin!) I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

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24 Wretched man that I am! Who (not what, but WHO) will set me free from the body of this death?

25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

While you are alive on this earth, you will definitely still sin in your flesh. The only thing that God wants you to do when you sin is to recognize that He has already solved that problem. Don’t look to the sins, but look to the solution He provided on the Cross.

Do you feel like you need to make up for your sins, or pay for them? Jesus Christ has already paid for them by the grace of God. God does not want you to make up for them, or do any work to be forgiven. And here’s the key: grace ceases to be grace if any price is paid for it.

Romans 11:6

6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.

If you are low, down on yourself, and feeling guilty, then simply look unto Him. In the grace of God is the absolute solution for all the sins you worry about.

Look at this verse not just as a salvation verse, but also a way for us to be saved from condemnation and guilt:

Isaiah 45:22

22 "Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth;

For I am God, and there is no other.