Last week, I was doing some chores around the house, thinking about somethings, when suddenly an unpleasant memory filled my mind. Without fully realizing it, I began to relive the mistakes I had made, the wrong things I had said, etc. The pleasant mood that I had emotionally been experiencing quickly changed to feelings of guilt, disappointment, and condemnation as I kicked myself over past mistakes.

As all these thoughts were racing through my mind and my mood began to take a nosedive, the Holy Spirit rose up inside me, and I heard myself say out loud, “Old things have passed away. I am a new creature. All things have become new!” (see 2Corinthians 5:17) Immediately, the condemnation, guilt, and memory left me.

 

Our accuser, Satan, would like nothing more than for us as Christ-followers to live lives in guilt and condemnation. However, the Good News is that our old life is gone. We are living a new life that is free of condemnation!

Therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life has set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
(Romans 8:1-4)

As Christ-followers, we are free from the law of sin and death. God has removed our sin from us, as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12). We are free from condemnation. We are new people. We no longer live according to the sinful nature. We live by the power of the Holy Spirit, who lives inside of us.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him
(John 3:17).

Take time to plant these scriptures into your heart. Then the next time you have thoughts of condemnation, remind yourself that you are a new person, free of guilt. Jesus no longer condemns you!
Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
(John 8:10-11)

And, when your accuser tries to remind you of your past, remind him of his future.
No Longer Condemned,

 

Pastor Tom