Sins of Omission: What You're Not Doing That's Hurting You

What happens when we know we should do something right, but we don't? That's the question at the heart of this powerful exploration of sins of omission. Having previously examined sins of commission, I now turn to the quieter but equally damaging ways we create distance between ourselves and authentic sonship with our Heavenly Father.

Drawing from James 4:17, I unpack four critical areas where we might be failing to do what's commanded: not helping those in need, failing to forgive, withholding the gospel, and not doing good when we can. But simply listing these sins misses the deeper issue—why do we hold back from doing what's right? The answer often lies in our identity wounds and the orphan spirit that keeps us viewing life through lenses of rejection and pain.

My own journey from wounded teenager to healed woman illustrates this transformation. After becoming pregnant at 14 and enduring mental and physical abuse, I had to make a conscious decision to break free from victimhood. Through years of intentional healing work—sozo sessions, coaching, community, and scripture—I discovered that when we shift from seeing ourselves as rejected orphans to beloved children of God, our ability to love and serve others naturally flows.

This healing journey isn't a quick fix but an adventure of continuous discovery. Each layer of healing affects every area of life—relationships, career, health, and finances all transform when we view them through healed eyes. If you're pursuing this path of sonship, you're already in the top 1% who refuse to quit when growth gets challenging.

Ready to break free from the orphan spirit and step fully into your identity as a daughter of the King? Listen now, and stay tuned for our upcoming episodes on God's outrageous grace and the six inward sins of the heart. Your testimony of overcoming is waiting to transform someone else's life!

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Think Cute Podcast
• 1:26 Understanding Sins of Omission
• 3:45 From Orphan Spirit to Sonship
• 6:30 My Personal Healing Journey
• 9:15 Outrageous Grace and Next Steps
• 11:16 Call to Action

Transcript

Speaker 0: 0:00

Welcome back to the Think Cute podcast, where thinking cute is a lifestyle. It is not being conformed to the world, but being transformed by the renewing of your mind, and on this podcast, we are disrupting toxic patterns with life lessons and tools that you can implement today to see a radical difference in your life and the way it goes. I'm just sharing all the things that I've learned, giving you my testimony. It's a beautiful life that we can partner with heaven and together learn from each other. The revelation that each of us get is spectacular, and when we share that, it's what transforms lives. Truly is your testimony what you've gone through and what God has showed you, and you've become victorious over that thing. That is what is going to transform someone's life. If you've overcome addiction, if you've overcome people pleasing, if you've overcome being abused, whatever that looks like. Overcoming adversity is no respecter of person. You can overcome adversity if you make a decision to overcome it, and so that's what we're doing here, and if you are new to the podcast, welcome If you've been following along since 2021, I'm just so thankful. I'm just so thankful. So find encouragement in all these episodes.

Speaker 0: 1:18

We are continuing our series on Sonship and what that looks like to be a daughter of the Most High King. We've been really digging into what separates us from that and we've been digging into the sins, you know, sins of the world that really, things that we're doing that we might not think are a big deal, but things that we're doing that we actually know also that we need to just stop it are a big deal, but things that we're doing that we actually know also that we need to just stop it. You know, last week we talked about sins of commission. This week we're talking about sins of omission and what you don't do when you know you need to do it. These are sins that are neglecting to do what is right and commanded of us. We're jumping right in. One example is not helping someone in need James 2, 15 through 16 talks about this. Failing to forgive talks about this in Matthew 6, 15. And not sharing the gospel Ezekiel 33, 6. And withholding good when you can do it James 4, 17. And in James 417, it says so whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. And so, if you can think about these sins of omission and what you don't do and neglecting to do what is right and or commanded, like where can we help people? Not helping someone in need when we know we can help? Maybe there's a judgment cast.

Speaker 0: 2:43

I know that I have personally had to overcome judging like people on the street and or even like judging where my tithe goes in the church. Can you think anywhere in your life like I know I can when there was a moment where you knew that you could help somebody but you didn't? Or have you failed to forgive someone that may have offended you or hurt you? Or have you found yourself in a situation where you could have shared the gospel? And that's your testimony. Like I talked about in the beginning of this, it's like your testimony is so powerful it holds the gospel truth. Have you not shared it? Or have you withheld good when you could do it?

Speaker 0: 3:25

I know personally, when we don't know God as our Father, when we don't know who we are in Him, our identity, our heart posture, our ability to receive love, there is a disconnect to doing what is good. You know because I always shared this and I could just attest to how I used to be. I was hurt. I have gone through a lot. I had a really rough upbringing, but I had a mom who really loved me and did her very best to protect me, and she did an amazing job.

Speaker 0: 4:02

Here I am talking to you, but when you go through life and you experience rough times, adversity, like I found myself judging with a broken heart, judging with a rejected heart, judging every circumstance through the eyes and lens of wounds, many, many wounds. People ran over me, people disrespected me, I was hurt, I was abused, all these things and like, ultimately, I had a choice right, like I had a choice to. Am I going to continue down this road of seeing with these eyes and continuing to respond with this victimhood? I would like to call it of like, oh, you're rejecting me. Here it is Okay, that's just what it is. You know I'm, I'm unlovable Great, of course I deserve that.

Speaker 0: 4:51

Like there's, there's things that it's, it's the lie in when you are an orphan, you're rejected, you're alone, you're unlovable, nobody wants you. All of these things go along with that spirit of being an orphan when you step into sonship and you step into this, this world, because there is a world where you can be loved and love and operate out of love. That is where we are working towards getting like every day I want to be more and more and more aware of my sonship, of my, of who I am as a daughter of the Most High King, stepping into this identity, that man I am so loved. I am made perfectly in his image. And these things of helping someone in need, forgiving, sharing the gospel and doing what I can in good, those things now come easy to me because I have a mindset, a heart, posture of love and acceptance.

Speaker 0: 5:51

But when you're an orphan and you have this orphan spirit and you're rejected and nobody's helping you and you have all this unforgiveness and you don't understand the true gospel truth, how are you going to share it when you don't know it? And how are you going to do good when you think everybody is out to get you right, like so you find yourself not doing what is right and commanded of you because I mean, come on, you don't know what you don't know. Praise God, we get to have this conversation together and I get to share a little bit of my testimony and share with you some scriptures that you can go and dig into to just find the truth of what the gospel says. But at the end of the day, it's our decision. I had to make the decision to say I want to get better. I'm no longer going to allow the outside circumstances of my life to dictate where I'm going and what my life is going to look like, even though I was 14 and pregnant and even though I was being mentally and physically abused. I had to make a decision. You know what? I'm not going to do this anymore and I'm not going to be treated this way. I had to step away.

Speaker 0: 6:59

So I found myself 15, single mom on this journey to life and I like I didn't know Jesus, I had no idea. Looking back, I'm like so thankful. I'm like, wow, god pursues us even when we don't know and seek him. Like I thought I was a Christian but definitely was not living the lifestyle of a Christian Absolutely not. But hey, there's grace for that. And in the next episode I'm going to share with you a letter from God that says there is outrageous grace for you.

Speaker 0: 7:30

It's up to us to receive it, to be able to see it, and when we seek after the Father and get a father's blessing and really learn, even though we've had maybe like me, I have had experience of not having a father here on earth. I had a father figure, but he was not my father and still that was something that was still not even like. You could look at it and say that's still dysfunctional, that's not normal, right? And so if I take my experiences here on earth that I've had with my earthly fathers, that's not looking too good in how, if I look at father God and I go, oh, you're just like them, maybe I have eyes and go I don't trust you because this is my experience with a father. And so if you're trying to tell me God is my father, absolutely not, how can I trust, how can I love, how can I be loved from somebody like that? And so that's where you really got to dig in and I dug in my experience with inner healing, sozo and getting help with coaching and sozo sessions and going to church and reading the word and all these things compiled.

Speaker 0: 8:35

I now find myself healed and healing, continuous healing, because, let me tell you, it doesn't stop. It's like an onion. There are layers and layers and layers to this and if you could shift your sight and frame your journey of healing that says, hey, this is adventure, this is exciting, this is not heavy, this is not depressing. Actually, I have become aware and I can celebrate my awareness. That's where you're going to have. You're going to be motivated even further to take the next step into your healing, to learn the next thing, to connect with that next person and get the coach and invest in the program that's going to support you in this journey. You know I had to make a decision, that I wanted to create a life, and I have just not quit. It's been over a decade of this work personally and I continue it, and I'm obsessed with learning how to help other women like you do the same and live their greatest life. So, with that being said, I pray this was helpful.

Speaker 0: 9:39

This was a shorter version. There's only literally four things that I have on my list to tell you of sins of omission. If you can think of any other things that you don't do that you know is right or you are commanded to do, share it in the comments and let us know what I'm potentially missing and what you have experienced in this area and what you've overcome. I am praying for your victory in life, in every area, because I believe how you do anything is how you do everything, and one area affects another and it will bleed into it. So if you find your discipline in this area of healing and really focus in, it's going to affect every area of your life. When you heal your heart, you heal your mind, you heal the way you see things in your career, your job, your business, your ministry and your health. It's going to affect your relationships. So literally, your wealth, health and relationships. It's going to affect every area of your life.

Speaker 0: 10:36

So I just want to commend you for being here. If you are the top 1% who is doing the hard work, you're not giving up. You know, the only people who really don't succeed are the ones who stop and quit because it gets too hard and or they don't know what they don't know. And so continue, continue on the journey. So proud of you and so excited for you, I will see you in the next episode and that's where we are going to share the outrageous grace letter from God. Just know that you are so loved.

Speaker 0: 11:02

And then, after that letter from God, we're going to. We're going to talk about heart sins. We're going to go into the inward sins of the heart, and there are actually six of those in Matthew 5, 22. It says, but I say to you, that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment. I pray this has been a blessing. If it has, leave us a five-star review that is detailed and let us know how this has touched you. And if you know a girlfriend who this would encourage or inspire, hey, hit that share button, copy the link and send it on over to her. Until next time, go be transformed. Have the best and amazing day.