Day By Day With Billy Graham / Symptoms of Guilt

Day By Day With Billy Graham

Day 269 of 366 Symptoms of Guilt Guilt is a prominent word among psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and ministers too. The dictionary calls guilt "the act or state of having done a wrong or committed an offense." The symptoms of guilt are many, but the root cause is one. We have broken the moral law of the universe as expressed in the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. So we have a sense of guilt. This guilt causes a variety of psychological problems such as insecurity, tension, hunger for approval, struggles for recognition. A sense of guilt, some psychiatrists point out, is as necessary as a sense of pain. We need both in order to keep us from getting hurt. Daily Prayer Your Holy Spirit touches my heart and makes me conscious of my guilt. Forgive me, Lord. Psalms 51:2 NASB 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity And cleanse me from my sin.