No More Condemnation!

I started reading that book and was going to take my time reading it, but I loved it so much I finished it in two sittings!!!! I think that I am going to read it again so that it can get burned into my heart and head. A few huge things stuck out to me while reading.. and I am so relieved that someone has written about this to allow me to pray to relieve my weary soul over this issue. The issue is called: CONDEMNATION!
C.J Mahaney states that condemnation can be over any sin, past or present, great or small. The common element is a sustained sense of guilt or shame over sins for which you have repented to God and to any appropriate individuals.
How would you know? What are the signs??

• Do you relate to God as if you were on a kind of permanent probation, suspecting that at any moment He may haul you back into the jail cell of his disfavor?
• When you come to worship do you maintain a "respectful distance" from God, as if He were a fascinating but ill-tempered celebrity known for lashing out at His fans?
• When you read Scripture does it reveal the boundless love of the Savior or merely intesify your condemnation?
• Are you more aware of your sin than you are of God's grace, given through the cross??

If you said yes to any or all of these, don't keep carrying the burden! You can be completely free of all condemnation! Not mostly free, but completely free.

God is glorified when we believe with all of our hearts that those who trust in Christ can be never be condemned!
C.J continued to talk about how the woman (former prostitute) that went in a washed Jesus' feet with her hair was responding as an act of worship, not shame and condemnation of her past sin! How amazing! We can all take a lesson from this woman.

Being freed from condemnation doesn't require that we forget or deny the depth and depravity of our sins, whether their sins committed prior to our conversion or sins committed since our conversion. If we want to know the joy and gratitude that the woman at Jesus' feet experienced, we must start by acknowledging and owning up to our many sins, confessing them, and believe in him.
Jesus died for the very sins that you are being condemned for!

The sins of of your past ans the sin you just committed were all atoned for; you need carry their weight no more!!!!