Guilt is a sin. Guilt leads to emotional instability. And if you live by guilt you will lose your perception of reality. Satan uses guilt to manipulate us, to discourage and defeat us. That’s why you need God’s problem-solving devices. Rebound and don’t look back. “Forgetting those things that are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead” (Phil 3:13-14). Guilt will cause repression where you will force things deep inside your soul and never deal with them because repression denies the reality of the problem. When you sin, when you fail, confess your sin to God and move on. Do not look back. Your relationship with God is permanent. “The foundation will not be burned up” (1 Cor 3). With your supernatural spiritual life, you can overcome past feelings of failure, abuse, rejection, and guilt. The Christian life is wonderful. God’s plan for you is amazing. Let go of the past.

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Sin, arrogance and a lack of discernment can destroy us. Sin is something you think, something you say, or something you do. The Bible tells us to immediately name a sin to God the Father. Using rebound is how we handle sin. “If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to purify us from all wrongdoing” (1 John 1:9). You must learn to deal with arrogance. Arrogance is identified by self-justification, self-deception and self-absorption. It takes humility to know you are arrogant. Discernment comes from verifying your thoughts and actions with Scripture. Discernment comes from acquiring the mind of Christ. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5).

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Laconic means to be of few words. As a Christian, you should be laconic when talking about other people. But when talking about the Lord Jesus Christ you should always be ready! Keep your mouth shut when you are angry. “A short-tempered person acts stupidly and a person who plots evil is hated” (Prov 14:17). Be quiet when you’re tempted to tell a lie or twist the truth. “Everything I say is fair and there is nothing twisted or crooked in it” (Prov 8:8). Don’t try to straighten out a fool. “Do not warn a mocker or he will hate you. Warn a wise person and he will love you. Give advice to a wise person and he will become even wiser” (Prov 9:8). Be quiet when you’re tempted to speak without knowing all the facts. “Those who are wise store up knowledge but the mouth of a stubborn fool invites ruin” (Prov 10:14). Learn to listen and not talk. Other times you should keep your mouth shut: when you don’t know all the facts; when you’re tempted to say more than you should or pervert the truth; if you’ve got a quick temper; if you’re tempted to malign your neighbor or say hurtful things. Be laconic!

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Faith alone, in Christ alone, is how you get eternal life. “This is the record that God has given to us eternal life and this life is in His Son” (John 5:11-12). The issue is - do you believe in Jesus Christ? “He that believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God” (1 John 5:1). You can express your faith to God by simply praying, “Father, I believe that Jesus Christ is Your Son and I am willing to accept Him as my Savior.” Now you can be confident and say, “I know I am going to heaven when I die.” Yes, you can trust God and have confidence in His promise of giving you eternal life. “These things have I written to you that believe on the name of the Son of God [that’s you!] so that you may know you have eternal life” (1 John 5:13). Once saved, always saved. You can’t lose your salvation. Don’t look back in your life at your mistakes. God has wiped away all those past sins. Look forward. Christianity is a personal relationship with your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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You never need to be lonely. As a Christian, Jesus Christ lives in you. You have the supernatural resources of the filling of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God to live your supernatural spiritual life. Loneliness is a type of arrogance. Preoccupation with friends can cause wrong priorities. Don’t lean on people to solve the issue of loneliness. Learning and applying God’s Word will solve loneliness. The encouragement to live God’s plan has to come from inside, from spiritual self-esteem, not from Christian fellowship. Spiritual self-esteem means you can handle being alone and you can be happy. Every day you fulfill God’s plan is a day of joy. “This is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice and have a superabundance of happiness in it because of His unfailing love and mercy every day” (Psalm 118:24).

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Every Christian has faults and flaws, but spiritual growth overcomes them. Faults are our sin-nature trends. You acquire flaws from bad decisions, poor habits, misinformation, and meaningless rituals. Will you allow the sin nature to control your life, or will you choose to be filled with the Holy Spirit so that He can guide you? “I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh [the faults of the sinful nature]” (Gal 5:16). We are in a mess nationally because of our lack of knowledge of God and His Word. The issue is the spiritual lives of this country’s citizens. We have neglected God’s Word. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6).⁠

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Solomon’s great wisdom, status, and wealth backfired on him because he took his eyes off God. Solomon went into operation boomerang, a frantic search for happiness. Solomon tried to purchase happiness and it didn’t work. It was vanity, emptiness. “Whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them. I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on the labor that I had labored to do and behold everything was vanity and striving after wind” (Eccl 2:11). Look at your bank account. Look at your collections. They mean nothing. As Solomon said, “I came into this world naked and naked I shall leave it.” Understanding and following the will of God gives you inner happiness. “Happiness belongs to those who hear my Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:27-28). Having a valid spiritual life by means of occupation with Jesus Christ as a young person will prepare you for the challenges you will face like an old person. Solomon finally got it, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, fear [respect] God and keep His Mandates” (Eccl 12:13). Keep your eyes on God, not people, circumstances, or things.

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Solomon had unbelievable wisdom and wealth, yet he was consumed with a frantic search for happiness. The book of Ecclesiastes tells us about it. Human viewpoint says people, things or circumstances can make you happy and it’s not true. What makes you happy is to renovate your thinking. Don’t think as the world thinks—you are just a sojourner in this devil’s world. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). If you get out of fellowship with God and search for happiness eventually you’ll end right back where you started - operation boomerang. “The wind goes toward the south and turns to the north. It whirls around continually and returns to its circuits” (Eccl 1:6). Solomon’s departure from the Lord led him to seven different substitutes he hoped would fill the emptiness in his heart, but they didn’t. Unhappy people take their unhappiness with them wherever they go. "The pursuit of happiness causes bad decisions which only intensify one’s unhappiness. There is no true happiness for the believer apart from the execution of the protocol plan of God,” R. B. Thieme Jr.’s The Pursuit of Happiness is available free of charge by calling 713. 621.3740.

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“Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col 1:27). This is your destiny. This is your empowerment to live your spiritual life. You can’t access this power with unconfessed sin in your life. “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me” (Ps 66:18). You can’t live the Christian life in the energy of the flesh. Sin can be very subtle. All sin starts with something you think. You must rebound when you sin, recover from your sin, and regain the filling of the Holy Spirit so you can continue your advance to spiritual maturity and glorify God to the maximum. You are mandated to “Be filled with the Holy Spirit” (Eph 5:18). You are mandated to “Grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18).

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There is no room for bitterness in the family of God. Respond with forgiveness rather than react with bitterness. “We must cease our bitterness” (Eph 4:31). Bitterness is self-absorption and defiles and infects others. Bitter people have few friends because no one wants to be around a bitter person. “A stranger cannot share in the joy of your bitterness” (Prov 14:10). Bitterness is a mental attitude sin. Confess it to God, isolate it (so it doesn’t become chain sinning), and move on in your spiritual life. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9).

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