It’s the end of the year. You made it. Now, it would be extremely easy for you to look back over the past year and be really disappointed in yourself. It would be easy to think things like, “I should have gotten farther along in this area.” or, “By now I could have stopped this one thing altogether.” But those thoughts don’t help. No matter what it could have been or even should have been, this year is ending right here where it is. You can’t go back and change what it was. Most people look at that and then say to themselves, “No, but I sure can feel really bad about it.” You need to hear me on this: There is absolutely nothing whatsoever that is helpful or good about guilt. You feeling terrible about your past does nothing about your past, present or future. It only hurts. If you were to ask Jesus what you’re supposed to do with the guilt and the “should have beens” and “could have dones” of the past year, I think He might say something along the lines of what He told the woman caught in adultery. This lady was busted and couldn’t change it, but He said He didn’t condemn her and then said, “Go and leave your life of sin.” In other words, “You’re not in trouble. Now, let’s do something new.” Jesus paid for all your wrong, but He didn’t pay so you would focus on it and then feel bad about it. He paid so you could have a relationship with Him and you could move on to something else. It’s a new year. Let’s leave the guilt in the last year and do something new.
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