Confession and 100% forgiveness

[ajecphotos]

Do you ever wonder, in the back of your mind, that you have been truly forgiven when attending confession? I am not saying that God doesnt forgive just that do you ‘feel’ as though have attained 100% forgiveness?

I know that sometimes, when i have gone to confession i sometimes think to myself “I hope God has really forgiven me 100%”.

 

[captainrick]

Do you ever wonder, in the back of your mind, that you have been truly forgiven when attending confession? I am not saying that God doesnt forgive just that do you ‘feel’ as though have attained 100% forgiveness?

I know that sometimes, when i have gone to confession i sometimes think to myself “I hope God has really forgiven me 100%”.

Sort of… It is difficult to grasp the fact that everything is really forgiven. But we know it is!

 

[Joy2day]

Yes, you are, and the devil hates this and tries harder right after confession to make you sin again.

 

[asia53]

You’ve been forgiven 100%. IMHO—when we have this thought, we haven’t forgiven ourselves.

 

[ajecphotos]

Sometimes, when i have been to confession, i still feel as though i am deep in sin!!! Hard to shake the thought away!

 

[porthos11]

Do you ever wonder, in the back of your mind, that you have been truly forgiven when attending confession? I am not saying that God doesnt forgive just that do you ‘feel’ as though have attained 100% forgiveness?

I know that sometimes, when i have gone to confession i sometimes think to myself “I hope God has really forgiven me 100%”.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But I’ve learned to never gauge my state of grace based on feelings. All I can know is I have made a good confession and that I’m forgiven. Even though I don’t always “feel” forgiven right after, my conscience is actually quiet, which is enough for me.

 

[ajecphotos]

A priest once told me that one thing you have to do after leaving confession is to remember to forgive yourself!!!

 

[Bookcat]

Feelings do not always follow reality. And remember even after being forgiven various temporal effects can remain…

 

[Eric_Hyom]

A priest once told me that one thing you have to do after leaving confession is to remember to forgive yourself!!!

If we can forgive those who have harmed us, we might then come to understand how God can forgive us.

 

[littlestsouls2]

Feelings can be very deceiving in the spiritual life. The key is to put our confidence in God and the good-will that He has given us.

‘All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me, I will not cast out’ (Jn. 6:37). ‘No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him; and I will raise him up in the last day’ (Jn. 6:44).

If we confess our sins with a firm resolution not to commit them again, we can rest assured that we have been forgiven.

Jesus to St. Mechtilde: “But when this poor human heart is contrite and broken with sorrow and cries out, ‘I will arise and got to my Father,’ the Sacred Heart thrills with joy. I say to thee, that no matter how great his sins may be, at that same moment, if he sincerely repents, I forgive all his sins, and My Heart inclines towards him with as much mercy and sweetness as though he had never sinned.”