Matters of the Heart Series Vol. 2 of 4 - Weekly Devotional 5/28/25
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Matters of the Heart Series Vol. 2 of 4 - Sense of Guilt
Todays' Devotional by Mary Hooker - Tseva Clothing Brand's Co-Founder
(This is an excerpt taken from a final exam paper written by Mary Hooker August 29, 2021 for coursework for an Introduction to Biblical Counseling class)
When we make choices that are considered wrong in the sight of God this is a lack of love for God and others, and our conscience produces a sense of guilt, apparently uncaused fear, and apparently uncaused fleeing. 1
All have had a sense of feeling guilt in their heart; whether believer or unbeliever. A sense that one has done something wrong is either the fact of guilt or the experience of guilt. Guilt usually occurs quickly in the immaterial heart. And is present even if one is not cognizant of its presence or when the attitude or action took place to cause such guilt. This sense of guilt creates the fear of judgment, thus causing apparently uncaused fear and fleeing.
With regard to the experience of guilt, there could be an awareness of said guilt, but not necessarily self-reproach or self-blame for it and possibly no other bodily effects which are a consequence of the guilt. Numerous episodes of this act of guilt may have become so common and prevalent that one may be desensitized. However, guilt does not exist without one’s knowledge so there is no such thing as false guilt. This concept was created to make one feel good about his actions to either escape blame, transfer blame or even create a victim mentality.
In order to be free from the fact of guilt and enjoy family forgiveness and commune with God, as a believer, one must be quick to confess and assume accountability. As with David in Psalm 32:5 from Matthew Henry ‘s Commentary, “Concerning the character of those whose sins are pardoned: in whose spirit there is no guile. He does not say, “there is no guilt” (for who is there that lives and sins not?), but guile; the pardoned sinner is one that does not dissemble with God in his professions of repentance and faith. While I kept silence my bones waxed old. Those may be said to keep silence who stifle their convictions, who, when they cannot but see the evil of sin and their danger by reason of it, ease themselves by not thinking of it and diverting their minds to something else, who will not unburden their consciences by a penitent confession, and who choose rather to pine away in their iniquities than to take the method which has appointed of finding rest for their souls.” 2 Thus, no man can say he feels no guilt; it is all the matter of his heart.
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1 Rich Thomson, The Heart of Man, and the Mental Disorders: How the Word of God is Sufficient, Moving from Unloving to Loving (Alief, Texas: Biblical Counseling Ministries, Inc. 2012), 53-58.
2 Zondervan, Matthew Henry’s Commentary in One Volume (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1960),1820.
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