Forgiving myself

Psalm 51:3 NKJV

For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me.

Many times I've felt like David - the looming, accusing, condemning, long list of my sins, faults and failings "ever before me"!

What a dampener, spreading a dark cloud over my soul.

Searching the biblical area of forgiveness - there is the difficult section of how to forgive "me"!

Here's a good question - what am I harbouring against myself? Am I holding grudges and keeping myself imprisoned by condemnation because of something in the past?

Does that "skeleton in my cupboard" keep rattling its dry bones just when I think I might be free?

Even Paul the Apostle had these feelings:

Romans 7:24 NKJV

O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

He fought back with spiritual facts from God's Word:

1 Timothy 1:15 NKJV

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

I need forgiveness as much as any other person.

If I fail to forgive "me", how can I hope to forgive others?

This is where I must live and park the bus of my life:

Romans 8:1-2 NKJV

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. [2] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

This is a freeing "Hallelujah" fact of spiritual life in Jesus and from it flows the River of Total Forgiveness.

I remember this old chorus and its sentiments ring ever true:

https://youtu.be/10byy1c5TXc?si=rwkb6VWpmjIUqTSW

Feel free to be excited!!

Q: Has God forgiven "me"?

If "yes", then so must I!