Psalm 51:1-19 (14)
 [14] Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
The idiot lights on the dashboards of our car are placed there for a purpose and yet often they are ignored. Maybe you like others have taken a piece of electrical tape and covered up the light so it would not be so annoying. Guilt is like the red warning light on the dashboard of the car. You can either stop and deal with the trouble, or cover up the light. The only way to find peace in the matter is with the cry of the Psalmist, “Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God† Coco Chanel a French Fashion designer though not a Christian understood the dynamic of guilt when he said, “Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.â€Â He probably was describing the pain of his own soul. One of the rewarding advantages of salvation from sinfulness is a complete dissipation of guilt. Minnie A Steele expressed this divine relief when she penned the immortal words to her hymn.
 I remember when my burdens rolled away;
That I feared would never leave, night or day.
Jesus showed to me the loss,
So I left them at the cross;
I was glad when my burdens rolled away.
Dr. Gayle Woods
Genesis 3:16-24 (23)
 [23] Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
The Rejection Hotline is a fake phone number you can give out instead of your real number. Callers hear the Rejection Hotline message and are not-so-subtly informed of your non-interest.Â
Who hasn’t known the pain of being chosen last for a game of basketball? Who hasn’t known the pain of being rejected by a lady that you asked out to dinner? Writers receive rejection slips. Actors receive rejection notices. All of these say, “You are not good enough.â€Â “You are not our choice.â€Â
New research suggests that the same areas in the brain that signify physical pain are activated at moments of intense social loss. (“Social Rejection Shares Somatosensory Representations With Physical Pain,†by Ethan F. Kross, Marc G. Berman, Walter Mischel, Edward E. Smith and Tor D. Wager)
The greatest rejection was first felt by God when Adam and Eve chose to leave Him out of their lives. This was followed by an automatic rejection that comes because Divine justice cannot countenance Sin. “Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden.â€Â That was a terrible day which is only overshadowed by the immensity of the prophetic assurance that eternal rejection awaits all who chose to reject God in this life.
Dr. Gayle Woods
