We somehow put ourselves in God's place when we try to forgive ourselves...I have to wonder if true repentance is present if we still find a need to forgive ourselves. I have not felt that need. God's forgiveness has brought great peace and true joy. If Amy has faced true brokenness and repentance, I would think that being such a prominent figure in Christian Music, she would have a brokenness and desire to let people know of her repentance and forgiveness by God if not for just the fact that it encourages each of us to know that God is true when He says that if we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgives us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If you have an arrogant puffed up heart thinking you don't owe anyone an apology and keep finding the need to "forgive" yourself, I wonder if there has truly been a brokenness and repentance in your heart.

King David is still known as a man after God's own heart. It was because of his deep sorrow and repentance that this was so. I felt that since I was a Sunday school teacher at the time, that I should confess before the church and ask for forgiveness. If they weren't willing to forgive me, it didn't matter, because God had forgiven me. I just felt the need to let them know my heart felt sorrow over the sin I had committed. Nowhere in God's word does it tell us we have to forgive ourselves...If we truly repent out of brokenness and sorrow, God forgives and restores to us the joy of His salvation.

As a Christian, I had an affair, divorced my husband and later remarried. God brought me to my knees in repentance and through His awesome grace and mercy, I am free from the condemnation of that sin. I am whole and free and not a second class Christian as some would try to place me. It's not up to them to "place" me anywhere. If God chooses to forgive me, I am clean. Just as King David's gross sin of covetousness, adultery and murder was forgiven of God through a truly repentant heart, so was mine.