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 Journal Entry - August 22, 2008
Repentance
"Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent." Rev. 3:19
"Correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth" 2Tim. 2:25
"I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish." Luke 13:5
Christian Living
A live body is not one that never gets hurt, but one that can to some extent repair itself. In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble - because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out. C. S. Lewis
Godly Grief
As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. 2Cor. 7:9
For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. 2Cor. 7:10
For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter. 2Cor. 7:11
Jesus Is Waiting
Repentance is not an option for salvation, remember Luke 13:5, "Repent or Perish" Many feel humility (humble quality or state) is humiliating (injure the self-respect of). See, not so!
We're not confessing sins which God is not already painfully aware of. We're asking His forgiveness for these sins, and He is eager to forgive them.
Repentance is only painful to our pride, it's a cure—all for our spirit.
His Promise
Years of repentance are necessary in order to blot out a sin in the eyes of man, but one tear of repentance suffices with God.
Love You All
"Until Then"
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