guilt and repentance

I have been struggling with the contrast between guilt and repentance. They appear to be linear partners. First comes guilt, then remorse, and finally repentance. In the eyes of the law the progression is linear, but I am not referencing that type of guilt. from this point on guilt will not portray a fact, but rather a feeling. I am guilty of being a broken human in need of a savior. The guilt that plagues is the guilt of emotion. I have been stuck in this guilt. I had a realization today. Possibly it is more of a remembrance of fact. If I am truly freed from judgement of the wrong I do then should I not also be free from the emotional guilt as well? Why is it then that when free from that emotional guilt I have been falling back into the same wrongdoing? It creates the need to feel that emotional guilt in order to feel safe from the temptation of the action. Have I been called to be free from the burden of guilt? This is the dillema. Are we free? The Word of God tells us we are. If I can't escape it and need the guilt just to put sin off how am I free? Is God's truth he gave us real? How does repentance place in this picture? Repentance is the turning away from whatever sin, wrongdoing, or whatever you wish to call it. Guilt holds you back from escaping because it reminds you of the wrong you did. I think that if we alone were responsible for all problem and sin in the world it would create a spiral of death. I am not sure there would be an escape because every wrong thought each of us had could only come from that person. It would mean that there would never be hope of change. At least in the world as it is now. Fortunately there is a true tempter. A being who's only motivation is to cause God's beloved creation to fall and do wrong. This being, who some call Satan, the Devil, the Snake, the Adversary, and many other names, can be blamed for the outside temptation. It does not create an excuse for the bad I do. He may be the tempter, but he can not make me do things that I do not already have desires to do. He does explain why I can be so sin free for a long period of time and then stumble again. Satan is the one who wishes to trap me in guilt so that I do not see that I am free of it. He is the one who uses my sin nature to crush my belief that I am free to so shroud me in guilt and sinful pleasure that I dwell on the wrong instead of true repentance. Some may say it is just an escape and I would agree. It is an escape, but it does not mean it is not also true or that we should not accept it as truth. Satan is the father of lies we must cling to the truth God has given us. If we believe some of it we must believe all of it.