Freedom at Heart

1 John 3:19-21 (NIV)

19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God

It is always amazing to discover something new about God when we often only look into other aspects of scripture but not taking it entirely in context. When I was going through this verse, I could not help but to be hung up over the fact that the scripture talked about our hearts.

We will always have a past and the past is the past in such a way that it happened but it stayed there. But what carries on is something unintentional that lingers within us. When we are revealed the sins of our doing, guilt sips through our conscience and takes hold of it, and even when our wrongs have been atoned for, it is really up to us to understand the situation we are in there after, that we are forgiven. But very often guilt comes to haunt us, and they sometimes do. 

...But as it says that if our hearts(guilt) condemn(haunts) us, we know that God is greater(forgiven) than our hearts(guilt), and he knows(atoned) everything(past)... If our hearts(guilt) do not condemn(haunts) us, we have confidence(freed) before God...

I am just taken back by just simply knowing that God knows the tendencies of my heart, that guilt does creep up on me fro time to time. And it is ever comforting to know that if guilt no longer haunts me, my conscience puts me at ease with assurance from Him.