Repentance is the desire to make things right. It’s starts with God, and finishes with people. Sorrow has a way of leading us towards repentance. Godly sorrow will always bring you back, restoring your relational status with God. It’s starts with seeing God for Who He really is, The Almighty, One-of-a-kind, no one compares, LORD. The response we have is awe, shame, gratitude, and praise. Intimacy with God does not preclude His authority. We have to see Him in His proper place before the shame we feel about our sin, turns into gratitude and praise, realizing only God makes it possible to commune with Him. Give thanks to God, for His mercies extend to all. When we make things right with God, He makes things right with us. His forgiveness frees us from the burden of guilt and shame. He is the only One that can do this. If only the world could understand this, it wouldn’t try so hard to earn it on its own.
11 Just see what this godly sorrow produced in you! Such earnestness, such concern to clear yourselves, such indignation, such alarm, such longing to see me, such zeal, and such a readiness to punish wrong. You showed that you have done everything necessary to make things right.
2 Corinthians 7:11
An Ordinary Man's Pursuit of the Extraordinary God of the Bible. These are daily insights from reading the Bible from cover to cover yearly. It is intended to point others to the Truth, and inspire people to pursue the God of the Bible individually.
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