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How do you deal with feeling unworthy of God’s Grace, Love and Forgiveness? I have started becoming really depressed because I feel like a failure. I have converted, and am a changed person…attending the Sacraments regularly but my past is so bad, I still have a hard time comprehending how he could love me. I did wrong in so many ways, so many times, and I repented but I don’t feel worthy enough to have his Mercy. How could he still love me when what I did was not worthy of love? How can he forgive me, when I was such a terrible person? I just need help understanding because I feel my past has soiled my future. I just don’t understand since I don’t feel worthy. Can anyone relate?
 
You’re not worthy. Not because of your past, but simply because there’s nothing a human being could possibly do to be worthy of the vastness of God’s love or the opportunity to enjoy the bliss of loving Him back. The greatest, most virtuous saints who have ever lived were completely unworthy of this tremendous, gratuitous gift. So withthat out of the way, it’s time to deal with the reality of the matter: you DO have those gifts, freely given and through no merit of your own. That’s the reality, that’s what’s real, so don’t struggle against it. What could be more futile than resisting something you can’t control? Only sane reaction is to accept it fully with immense gratitude, imo.

All this guilt and unworthiness is kind of spitting in God’s face, if you think about it. Flush that filth down the toilet where it belongs, accept your gift gratefully, rejoice, and enjoy.
 
MaryRita85 said:
How do you deal with feeling unworthy of God’s Grace, Love and Forgiveness? I have started becoming really depressed because I feel like a failure. I have converted, and am a changed person…attending the Sacraments regularly but my past is so bad, I still have a hard time comprehending how he could love me. I did wrong in so many ways, so many times, and I repented but I don’t feel worthy enough to have his Mercy. How could he still love me when what I did was not worthy of love? How can he forgive me, when I was such a terrible person? I just need help understanding because I feel my past has soiled my future. I just don’t understand since I don’t feel worthy. Can anyone relate?
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Everyone can relate, it is probably how most of us feel. Keep in mind guilt comes from Satan, not from God. Guilt is there to stiffle you.
 
Forkfoot said:
You’re not worthy. Not because of your past, but simply because there’s nothing a human being could possibly do to be worthy of the vastness of God’s love or the opportunity to enjoy the bliss of loving Him back. The greatest, most virtuous saints who have ever lived were completely unworthy of this tremendous, gratuitous gift. So withthat out of the way, it’s time to deal with the reality of the matter: you DO have those gifts, freely given and through no merit of your own. That’s the reality, that’s what’s real, so don’t struggle against it. What could be more futile than resisting something you can’t control? Only sane reaction is to accept it fully with immense gratitude, imo.

All this guilt and unworthiness is kind of spitting in God’s face, if you think about it. Flush that filth down the toilet where it belongs, accept your gift gratefully, rejoice, and enjoy.
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You are very right and I know this. I have just been plagued with guilt for such a long time.At my former church, you would walk out of there hating yourself and I guess old habits are hard to break but I am certainly trying:)
 
LightFromLight said:
Everyone can relate, it is probably how most of us feel. Keep in mind guilt comes from Satan, not from God. Guilt is there to stiffle you.
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This is true, the most issue I am having now is not from others but from my own doubt. I need to knock it off, I’m going to surround myself with what is Holy so I have the stregth to move through this.
 
MaryRita85 said:
This is true, the most issue I am having now is not from others but from my own doubt. I need to knock it off, I’m going to surround myself with what is Holy so I have the stregth to move through this.
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You know, I have found myself in this condition for the past two years to an extent where I can almost see Jesus looking over His shoulder at me with an expression of exasperation lol.

What we “feel” means nothing. We are instructed not to “rely on our own understanding”. For instance: in one particular evangelical church where I attended regularly (during my hiatus from Roman Catholicism), the worship part of the service (song and praise) was intense! The “feelings” these produced were like a “high”. But there was a very important and essential ingredient missing: The Holy Eucharist.

Jesus would have lived, died and risen just for you. Stop worrying about your worthiness and continue to love Him with your whole heart and soul, mind and body, and do your best to follow Him. That means: carry your cross, whatever it is, and do it knowing that He is mere footsteps ahead of you, carrying His own. When you follow in His footsteps in this way, with great love, charity and humility, I think you might one day follow in His footsteps in glory and with a joy we can’t even imagine here in this place and in these bodies.
 
God loves us irrespective of our worth.

People who focus on their unworthiness are prone and often do, see others as even less worthy.

This is because they are unable to forgive and have mercy toward others, so they have a difficult time understanding God’s mercy and forgiveness.

This is a trap the evil one lies for us.

Don’t accept it. You are loved and you are worth it, for if you were not, Jesus death would be a mockery.

Jim
 
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