A guilty conscience is a terrible thing.
You know the feeling. You said or did something that you regret; you are filled with remorse and an overwhelming feeling of dread. It can make you sick; you feel like hiding; you hope no one finds out about it. God seems distant; and you are ashamed to approach Him. You feel like the woman in the Gospel lesson today – thrown on the ground in front of the Judge with your guilty conscience pointing a finger at you! A guilty conscience turns everything into gloom and doom.

So what do you do with a
guilty conscience?