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Repent ye. – Mark 3:2
This was John’s...Repentance<br /><br />Repent ye. – Mark 3:2<br /><br />This was John’s gospel. At first it seems very unlike the story of love which Jesus preached, and yet it is part of the <br />same story. Repentance must always come before forgiveness and peace. Perhaps we need to be re minded of this <br />in these days. We are in danger of making salvation too easy a matter and of being altogether too tolerant with ourselves. <br />We forget, some of us, that sin is such a terrible thing, and we are too careless about getting rid of our sins. We misunderstand <br />God’s forgiveness if we think of it merely as an easy forgetting that we have done the wrong thing. Jesus did not come to save <br />us merely front sin’s penalties; he came to save us from the sins themselves, by leading us to forsake them for ever. Unless we <br />repent of our sins we never can have forgiveness. <br /><br />We must make sure, too, that we do thorough work in our repenting.Repentance is not merely a little twinge of remorse over some<br />wrong thing. It is not simply a gush of tears at the recollection of some wickedness. It is not mere shame at being found out in <br />some meanness or uncleanness or dishonesty. It is the revolution of the whole life. Sins wept over must be forsaken for ever. <br />Repentance is a change of heart, a turning of the face just the other way. It is well for us to make diligent quest to be sure that <br />we always abandon the wrong doing which we deplore, that we quit the evil course which we regret, that we turn away from the <br />sin which we confess.<br /><br />A good many people get only half the gospel. They talk a great deal about believing, but very little about repenting. It needs <br />to be remembered that a faith which does not lead to genuine repentance is not a faith that saves. He who bewails a sin and <br />confesses it, secretly in tending to return to it again, has no good ground to hope that he is forgiven.GG2013https://www.blogger.com/profile/01180358618816519694noreply@blogger.com