VibesPrimjer

Have you ever been hard on yourself? Maybe you didn’t get the grade you wanted, you had a rough go at rehearsal, or dropped the ball on a group project. Whatever it is, we tend to be our harshest critics. 

This can explain why it can be hard for us to think God has forgiven us—when we haven’t forgiven ourselves about something. Because if we are disappointed in how we acted, God must be SO disappointed. But here’s the thing: God isn’t out to make you feel bad. Why? Because feeling bad doesn’t make us live better. It doesn’t make us into the kind of people He wants us to be. He wants us to know that we were made for something better than sin. So when we mess up, He isn’t shaking His head at us, wanting us to feel and stay guilty. He is inviting us to know something better than guilt—and that’s freedom.