WKC - 2006dssaaa

I went to Women's Convention at Katoomba this weekend. It was really good. It's a Christian convention for women (der). This year the talks were on Jesus Uncut. It was looking at who the real Jesus was. All the talks were really good but one thing that I was really struck by was the letting go of guilt.
I've been living with a lot of guilt, some recent, a lot not. We looked a lot at Hebrews and how because of Jesus we need to let go of guilt.
We learnt that there are 3 types of guilt.
1) Haven't confessed guilt. We haven't truely confessed and moved on. We make excuses and we hide behind religious activities and empty confessions. We need to stop hiding from God, confess, turn away and move on.
2) We become balzé about sin. Jesus' sacrifice for us removes the dread of judgement but it doesn't remove the dread of sin.
3) Confessed but still feeling guilty. We forget the confidence we have in Christ, his once and for all sacrifice. We need to remember that we can forgive ourselves because God has forgiven me. We often feel that human's won't forgive us or will treat us differently because of what we've done.. but what we are doing is transferring human emotions to God. We are settling for a cut view of God. You see there is no fear of shame of being discovered. Jesus has dealt with it all, completely effective grace.

That's the biggest thing that I've realised. I am still working through this. I spent some time with my dear friends in my room at camp last night just chatting. It was nice to talk to them, I've been running away from them recently. I was very encouraged by the confidence I have in Christ. It has helped me with my guilt. I hope that I don't forget what I have learnt.


Another thing I was really challenged by was in Jenny Salt's talks on Matthew. She read us a quote about our views of God.
"Our faith will be most stable if we focus on Jesus and who he is and we discover he is far more wonderful that we anticipated". It's very true. Realising more about who Jesus is has helped with my 'cut' views of him, and he is far more wonderful than I ever anticipated.

xx
Jen