Its true self condemnation will ruin the life of any believer even if its for just moments at a time. We are all so concerned about our heavenly appearance either to others or just to ourselves or even fearing what God may think. Let's step back a minute and think about the obvious from the Bible. How often did Jesus refuse to forgive people? None that we can ever recall, right? He always forgave! Hebrews 13:8 says Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever! Jesus must still be forgiving! Of course He is. We'll then say "yes He forgives, but He's upset with me!" All of this is a vicious cycle designed to discredit what our Lord Jesus did for us! If you self condemn yourself without reminding yourself of the forgiveness Jesus purchased you then you actually are making more of a deal about your mistake then the price Jesus paid to have that sin removed. No where does the Bible tell us to feel so sorry for our sins that we don't accept our forgiveness and move on. We want to punish ourselves in some form or fashion, but we must remember Jesus was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was laid upon Him. It does no good to try to punish yourself. Besides the punishment is "death" anyway! I'd like to see you try to do that to yourself every time you make a mistake! There's no way! We all feel we should at least expect maybe a few days without answered prayer or a few days of everything going wrong then all will be ok with God and me. Wrong! Its only through the blood of Jesus are our sins removed, so all the other hoops we jump through are just a waste of time. The devil wants to make us thing we have to do all kinds of things to win our place back with the Lord and its just wrong. Your place with the Lord is not won by your merits or mine. Its a gift through Jesus Christ. What we fail to recognize is Jesus is actually our Great High Priest that is passed into the heavens for us. Stop worrying about how special your mistakes are to God for they are not. He has forgiven you no matter what you do or will do. If you or I don't pay close attention to the bible where forgiveness is concerned we will come up with all kinds of weird ideas about how to get our lives right again with the Lord. Jesus made all the arrangements for this already. Your place is secure! Learn to believe in forgiveness with full blessings intact! No where did God say He'd take them away for a few days or weeks or anytime length of time. Learn to believe in His mercy! Its forever and its for us all!