Two Types Of Sorrow….

There are two types of sorrow: that which leads you away from sin and results in salvation, and the kind that lacks repentance which results in spiritual death. The only difference between the two is the former leaves you with no regrets. When you see the world through God’s eyes, you live moving forward, pressing on toward a goal still in front of you; for the best is yet to come. If you view the world without acknowledging God, you live looking backwards, always questioning your life; regret holds you in the past, because you think the best has already come. Repentance projects you forward into your future. It keeps us focused on our ultimate destination (Heaven). Which do you tend to experience? What’s stopping you from living forward?

I am not sorry that I sent that severe letter to you, though I was sorry at first, for I know it was painful to you for a little while. 9 Now I am glad I sent it, not because it hurt you, but because the pain caused you to repent and change your ways. It was the kind of sorrow God wants His people to have, so you were not harmed by us in any way. 10 For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation. There’s no regret for that kind of sorrow. But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death.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. 12 My purpose, then, was not to write about who did the wrong or who was wronged. I wrote to you so that in the sight of God you could see for yourselves how loyal you are to us. 13 We have been greatly encouraged by this. 2 Corinthians 7:8-13a