Guilt Free

It’s funny. For the past couple of days I have been a little tortured. The break-in of my van keeps running over and over in my mind.

At first I had a clear memory of putting the GPS on the floor before I got out of the car.

But as time passed I started to wonder.

“Did I do it? Did I remember? Or did I forget in my haste to keep up with my friends?”

“What if the whole break-in was my fault?!”

I remember doing it. I do it every time I get out of the car. Just ask my kids. They laugh about it. Just ask my friends that have borrowed it from me. That’s my only condition for borrowing it….hide it when you get out of the car.

I don’t know if it’s the trauma of what happened or just self doubt, but that first night when I went to bed I started wondering.

Did I?

Didn’t I?

But then God touched my heart with the truth.

It doesn’t matter!

It was MY GPS, sitting in MY van, all belonging to ME.

Even if I left it on the hood, all lit up with signs pointing to it, no one had the right to steal it from me, much less destroy the window of my van.

What kind of world are we living in where the innocent feel guilty and the guilty feel innocent.

God’s Word is clear.

Right is right. Wrong is wrong. There is no middle.

“Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy; they will sing before the LORD, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his truth.” Psalm 96: 12-13

We are all judged by the same truth. We will all face the same God. We all have to live with our own decisions.

God knows our hearts. He is the Truth.

I am going to stop worrying about whether or not I forgot to hide the GPS.

It doesn’t matter.

I’ve been redeemed.

This will be reposted on my second blog.