Guilt cannot heal you or even offer a helping hand in getting you healed. (I’m talking about walking in freedom and repentance.) Guilt cannot get you there. Only Grace and love and all that love is can transform. The enemy has tricked people into believing that walking around feeling bad about yourself, and being shocked at your behavior, and walking around for days confessing how bad it was and how you’ll never do it again until the guilt feeling fades, is somehow holy. After the guilt feelings fade, you find yourself faced with that failure all over again. That’s because guilt cannot change you. Only Grace transforms. God does not delight in you feeling bad. True repentance brings release and joy!! Jesus went to the cross despising the shame!! He literally hates shame!! He does not use guilt and shame to change us!! He rushes in every time and washes the shame and guilt off us.
TC