Guilt Relief

This morning Tom on Music and Company referred to a study that has been done …
I found it at livescience.com
“Researchers discovered sins actually seem to urge people to clean themselves, a phenomenon they dubbed the ‘Macbeth effect’ after dramatized murderess Lady Macbeth, who vainly tried scrubbing her hands clean of imaginary blood in Shakespeare's famed Scottish play.
‘Out, out spot … All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand …’
Intriguingly, the researchers also found purifying the body then helped people absolve their consciences.
Past studies have shown there are definite overlaps in the brain in the regions stimulated by moral disgust and physical disgust.”
The researchers reported their findings in the Sept. 8 issue of the journal Science.
“My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. For though you wash yourself with nitre, and take much soap, still your iniquity is marked before me”, says the Lord GOD. Jer 2:22
I haven’t heard anyone who in talking about stress relief refers to the problem of relieving guilt. We know that guilt does a lot of things to the mind; what of the body? See that wrinkle right there? That is the time that I stole a …
Guilt relief is simple, though not easy. Ask for forgiveness and effect restitution as nearly as possible. God forgives on the basis of death, if we acknowledge that we deserve to die for our sin, however small it was and accept Jesus’ death on our behalf God will forgive us. Christians forgive, should forgive, on the basis of God’s mercy toward us. People in general should forgive because we each know that we could do just the same or worse.