It is undeniable that Guilt can be a God-given gift, if it sets off an alarm in our hearts when we hurt others, betray our standards and stray from our values. At such times, God will use guilt to lead us to repentance. Not all guilt is destructive. It was your great American wit, Mark Twain, who once said, Man is the only animal that blushes, and the only animal that needs to. We are justifiably ashamed, are we not, of things we've done in the past.
Nobody is ever alive and joyfully free who is unforgiven.
It may be over something which happened in the past. No one may even know of it. A betrayal of a mate, a breaking of God's precious commandments, an act of dishonesty, a lie which destroyed another human being. The solitary man who stands on some rocky peak, far from any living human being may be LESS lonely than that one who elbows his way down a crowded street. Over and again, we hear experts saying that desperate people are doing desperate things because they cannot find anyone in whom they have enough confidence to unburden themselves.