Sometimes the goodness in our lives is partnered with guilt. Guilt that I have what you don’t. Guilt that my circumstances are better than yours.



Have your blessings made you feel bad? Is there guilt attached to your gift?



What do you do when your prayers are answered with a yes, and someone else’s prayers are answered with a no? What do you do when you get the long end of the stick and someone else continually gets the short end? Oh we never talk about that, do we? We only speak up when we are shorted, so it’s almost uncharted territory to confess when we are actually the lucky ones.



Have you ever struggled because everything is so right in your world, while things in someone else’s world are so wrong? Have you ever been embarrassed to admit your blessings and chosen to hide the goodness of your reality because it doesn’t seem fair in comparison?



ME TOO! All the time. And I believe God has something to say about this.



I travel for a living. I legit have the dream job. This month I’m in Hawaii, next month I’m in Bali, and the month after that is Italy. I chase warmth and sunshine while so many of my friends are stuck in the freezing cold lingering winter. That doesn’t seem fair now does it?



And let me tell you what happens sometimes. My joy gets replaced by guilt. Why am I so blessed when others aren’t? Isn’t it wrong of me to enjoy all of this when you have received the bitter cold? Would it make you feel better if I didn’t enjoy it?



But what do you have that I don’t? Do you have small children at home? Did you get to wake those babies up this morning? Maybe you even found one of them in your bed this morning. Did you get to hear their footsteps run through the kitchen?



Do you know what I would do to rewind time and have that again for today? Or how about the woman longing to have children, what would she give to have your ordinary Wednesday morning? Your mundane is her dream. You have it every single day and she’s never had it for one day. What will your response be? Guilt because you are blessed? Shame because you have an abundance of what others have none of?



Romans 8:1 “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”



I know I am no longer guilty of my past sin. I have been forgiven. I can easily accept that as truth. But what about my current blessings? Am I condemned by what I DO have in comparison to what other’s do not?



NO. THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION.



Honey, stop feeling guilty for what you have been given. It is a work of the enemy to bring guilt to your blessings. You have been set free from your sins, but now held captive by your blessings? Are you playing little, not enjoying all you have been given because you feel guilty over it? I know that sounds insane, but it’s a game we play.



And if we play that game, we will forever be in a tailspin of what we have that others don’t and the guilt we feel over it.



I pray daily for a dear friend of mine going through a horrible divorce. It makes me for guilty sitting on a beach with my husband where everything is good and right. How can I be happy when she is hurting so terribly? I decided to tone down my happy.



I have a friend battling cancer. This disease has turned her world upside down and she’s fighting to do the simplest things her healthy body once did without a thought. How is it fair that I woke up feeling so good? How can I joyfully carry on with my day doing a workout with a strong,