The Guilt Voice

It's school time again and that means..................the DREADmill (Treadmill)!!

I love to exercise in the mornings, so when you have to be at school at 7:30 in the morning, and since the sun suprisingly always comes up at 6:30 a.m., the treadmill will just have to be my friend :(

Thankfully God's still small voice still reaches me on the treadmill, hence this blog post at 7:01 this morning.

As I turned on my music and cranked up the speed, I was beating myself up again for something that I had no business feeling guilty about, but that's my thing, so I was feeling guilty.  Just a few minutes before, I was reading a devotional book by Alli Worthington called "Fierce Faith".  One portion I read was talking about how we would never say the negative things we say to ourselves to other people.  We are brutal on ourselves.

As I heard my overactive "inner guilt voice" tell myself the same old lies, God's sweet small voice reminded me of a powerful truth.  The only voice I have to listen to is His.  What a relief!  So many times, I come up with my own condemnations, but that's just it - they are mine - not God's.  When the Holy Spirit corrects me - that's when I need to listen.  All the other times, I just need to tell myself to shut up!

Recently, I pondered on the verse, "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. (Prov 4:23)" Then our pastor reminded me of the verse, "My peace I give unto you, my peace I leave with you. Not as the world giveth.  LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED, NEITHER LET IT BE AFRAID.  I love the world "LET" in that verse.  It implies a choice needs to be made.  I have the choice to LET my heart be troubled.  My guilty self-talk is a choice - a choice I need to stop.

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