Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Your Repentance

"The Lord will meet that man where he is if he calls upon Him, for the Lord will meet every man that calls upon Him; and that shame that has been upon him, and that disgust at his own disgrace, that will lead a man to accept the salvation of Christ, and call for it,—the Lord will receive him upon that.
His repentance is not finished, 
has not reached its object, 
until he is sorry because his sin is sin against God, 
in its being a violation of the commandment of God. 

Until your sorrow reaches to God, your repentance has not gone far enough; for it is only godly sorrow that works repentance not to be repented of: 2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world works death. 

Until your sorrow reaches away from yourself, and all of yourself; and until God alone, and His glory, and His majesty, and your having sinned against Him, is the basis of your repentance,—until you reach that point, you never can be kept from sinning." 
A.T. Jones