[cheekopekman]

I used the word 'guilt' 12 times in my post to explain why I know I'm disobeying God. Somehow my message was lost on you. Maybe your way of knowing if you're disobeying God is different from the Christian way. As someone who is very much given to rule-keeping, you know a violation of God's laws or a lack of obedience when you see one. Failing to keep the rules is therefore your way of knowing you haven't acted in obedience to God.

For us a new birth into a new life isn't supposed to be a downtrodden, miserable existence of struggling to keep religious rules and regulations and feeling guilty when we fail. This isn't to say we shouldn't do good works, but they should be done out of our relationship with God and not as a means of trying to get brownie points from Him to earn our salvation.

For me, being guilt-ridden is a 'red flag' that I may have an unconfessed sin. Sin brings a curse and obedience brings blessing. The constant companion of sinners is guilt. They're unable to escape it. Some may try a variety of ways to ignore it, but deep down inside they know their lives are not right. I make mistakes on occasion just like everybody else, and I often ask God to search my heart for any hidden sins that I may have, which may be destructive to my relationship with God. Believers don't live under guilt and condemnation anymore as Jesus has removed and washed their sins away along with the guilt that accompanies them.

Your compliance with rule-keeping may extend to guarding against usury, aka 'loan-sharking' - supposedly banned by Muslim doctrine, as it is by Christian doctrine. Riba may be prohibited under Sharia law, but the Muslim world has struggled with Riba for quite some time, religiously, morally and legally. Christian perspectives on lending in the modern lending arena have also changed radically over the centuries. Economic pressures eventually allowed for a loosening of religious and legal regulation.

Every born again Christian has the Holy Spirit dwelling within us lah!  Whenever we disobey God or rebel against Him, the Holy Spirit will rebuke us from within lah! He came to convict us of sins lah!