August 24, 2016
Repentance is to be sorry for what you have done or said that hurts another. To say you are sorry. But according to scripture and there are many scriptures, too numerous for me to quote at this time, but available to you in your bible, that teach what true repentance means.
It is not enough for you to be sorry, if you don’t change in your attitude and disposition in the understanding of repentance. Even though you are sorry, because you have been embarrassed and ashamed in being found out, this is not godly sorrow.
To be truly repentant, is to be so wounded in your spirit as to the realization that you have hurt God by your wrong attitudes towards another.
To say you are sorry must come from the depths of your heart, and being convicted by Holy Spirit, you must be willing to change your ways.
To have sorrow as an act of justification and continue in the same mind set is not godly sorrow, for true repentance is to ask for God’s forgiveness as well as the offended one, and make a commitment to God to change with his help.
This change is the realization in the weakness of our flesh and a new commitment in our relationship to our Lord, so that we become changed into the likeness of Christ.
When one can come to this place of honesty with himself, he is now ready to deny flesh and allow the spirit to move in a deeper depth in his life. Causing him to become changed, he will find himself identifying with Christ’s work upon the cross, death to the flesh and a release of the Holy Spirit within his body, a new creation in Christ.