The thought provoking article called “Cresting the waves” in the April 2013 Reader’s Digest is pointing me again to the importance of the words peace, guilt and forgiveness. Those words are important for all of us.

I am learning that our own peace cannot be found in our work.

I am learning also that guilt is a terrible burden.

The keyword is FORGIVENESS

I am also learning that for people with the terrible burden of guilt forgiveness is the key word. They are all trying to learn how to forgive themselves for things they think they are responsible for.

Once more, those three words are important for all of us.

The Bible says that all of us are guilty before God. We read that in Romans 3:19:

“Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses, and to show that the entire world is guilty before God.” (NLT)

Have you heard the saying, “A clear conscience makes a soft pillow?”

Do you know the meaning of a guilty conscience? A guilty conscience is the voice inside us, a voice which condemns us even then, when all earthly judges are quiet.

In first John 1:9 it says,

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” (NIV)

Ephesians 2:14 tells us that “he himself [Christ] is our peace, …”

Peace can only be found in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I  know that “NO GOD, NO PEACE, KNOW GOD KNOW PEACE,” has been used as a church sign, but I have not seen it myself.