"You Just Wanna Forget About It!" - Don's Story

What is your first response when someone tells you that you did something wrong? Do you have a knee-jerk reaction that seeks to provide answers for why you are right? What if the matter has to do with how you treated another person… do you instantly justify your actions by stating why the other party deserved how you treated them? As human beings, our natural “wiring” always seeks to alleviate guilt when someone else says we are worthy of it, regardless of our past actions. And if we do take the time to consider any wrong deeds we might have committed, our mind is very quick to think of scenarios of how someone else’s actions were worse than our own misdeeds. But how does God see this situation? In the end, when we give account of our actions to Him, will He ignore our misdeeds because those of others were worse? Scripture reveals that we will never eliminate personal guilt by trying to balance it with blame of others. The Bible tells us how our walk of faith itself will be greatly damaged when we fail to take responsibility for a guilty conscience. (See 1 Timothy 1:19)
In this combined testimony and whiteboard teaching video, we hear the story of a man who fostered a barrier in a family relationship by ignoring his own misdeeds and focusing on the misdeeds of another. But when he recognized his own responsibility before God, and took the courageous step to clear his conscience, it unlocked an amazing chain of events that resulted in healing and restoration.
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