When you feel guilty about your loved ones, you know what to do - come up and ask for forgiveness. A completely different thing is guilt before God. How and with what words to ask for forgiveness from the Lord?
Guilt before God: why it arises
Before answering the question of how to beg forgiveness from God for our sins, we need to understand where the feeling of guilt arises. Is this very guilt a repentance to which the saints constantly call?
It is noticed that serious conditions when you want to turn to God arise not from the mind (that is, not at the moments when you understand that you have formally violated a certain point of the commandment), but through spiritual inspiration. When it becomes hard not for the mind, but for the soul.
The saints call this state the “rupture” of the soul with the Lord. And the holy fathers do not define sin as some kind of formal misconduct for which a person should be punished. This perception of sin is very shallow, and rather typical of Catholicism. Sin in the concept of the holy fathers is a rupture of the soul with God. This is an act that robs a person of harmony at the deepest level. The saints knew how to listen to themselves and their soul very well and "caught" sins in their very beginnings. People living in the world realize that there is no harmony in the soul, it is too late only when the state comes, when there is no one to turn to. In this state, I want to ask God for forgiveness.
