“Godly sorrow worketh repentance.”
- 2Corinthians 7:10 When God makes you feel sorry enough to turn to him and be saved, you don't have anything to feel bad about. But when this world makes you feel sorry, it can cause your death. (CEV)
This is a good morning devotional. What I have found as my walk with Christ strengthens is that my repenting becomes fewer but as Charles Spurgeon writes, is still there and will always be there.
[Genuine, spiritual mourning for sin is the work of the Spirit of God. Repentance is too choice a flower to grow in nature’s garden. Pearls grow naturally in oysters, but penitence never shows itself in sinners except divine grace works it in them. If thou hast one particle of real hatred for sin, God must have given it thee, for human nature’s thorns never produced a single fig. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh.”]
What I have found in my life, to help keep sin out of my life is I ask the Lord to make these things distasteful to me. I am human and sin is all around, especially in today’s times with everything at our fingertips. All the good, the bad and truly ugly stuff.
[True repentance has a distinct reference to the Saviour. When we repent of sin, we must have one eye upon sin and another upon the cross, or it will be better still if we fix both our eyes upon Christ and see our transgressions only, in the light of his love.]
Powerful paragraph Mr. Spurgeon!
[True sorrow for sin is eminently practical. No man may say he hates sin, if he lives in it. Repentance makes us see the evil of sin, not merely as a theory, but experimentally-as a burnt child dreads fire. We shall be as much afraid of it, as a man who has lately been stopped and robbed is afraid of the thief upon the highway; and we shall shun it-shun it in everything-not in great things only, but in little things, as men shun little vipers as well as great snakes. True mourning for sin will make us very jealous over our tongue, lest it should say a wrong word; we shall be very watchful over our daily actions, lest in anything we offend, and each night we shall close the day with painful confessions of shortcoming, and each morning awaken with anxious prayers, that this day God would hold us up that we may not sin against him.
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent. Every other sorrow yields to time, but this dear sorrow grows with our growth, and it is so sweet a bitter, that we thank God we are permitted to enjoy and to suffer it until we enter our eternal rest.]
Please read this part one more time, “True mourning for sin will make us very jealous over our tongue, lest it should say a wrong word; we shall be very watchful over our daily actions, lest in anything we offend, and each night we shall close the day with painful confessions of shortcoming, and each morning awaken with anxious prayers, that this day God would hold us up that we may not sin against him.”
I pray to the Lord above He will make that real to all of us.
The Lord blessed me with this poem a few years ago and have used it in His outreach ministry. If you focus your life on Him, then you will be leaving no room for sin!
May This Day
May this day be about You, Lord
May my thoughts be of You
May each action that I take, Lord
be just like You would do.
May I strive to be less selfish
May my words just come from You
May my life be a living sacrifice
in all that I do.
May each person that I meet
May I plant a tiny seed
May it nurture in their heart Lord
and bring them closer to You indeed.
May they understand as I do
May their hearts be filled with love
May this day be about You, Lord
as we give praise to our Savior above.
E. P. Shagott
9/29/2007
From God’s heart, to mine, to yours,
Ed Shagott
- 2Corinthians 7:10 When God makes you feel sorry enough to turn to him and be saved, you don't have anything to feel bad about. But when this world makes you feel sorry, it can cause your death. (CEV)
This is a good morning devotional. What I have found as my walk with Christ strengthens is that my repenting becomes fewer but as Charles Spurgeon writes, is still there and will always be there.
[Genuine, spiritual mourning for sin is the work of the Spirit of God. Repentance is too choice a flower to grow in nature’s garden. Pearls grow naturally in oysters, but penitence never shows itself in sinners except divine grace works it in them. If thou hast one particle of real hatred for sin, God must have given it thee, for human nature’s thorns never produced a single fig. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh.”]
What I have found in my life, to help keep sin out of my life is I ask the Lord to make these things distasteful to me. I am human and sin is all around, especially in today’s times with everything at our fingertips. All the good, the bad and truly ugly stuff.
[True repentance has a distinct reference to the Saviour. When we repent of sin, we must have one eye upon sin and another upon the cross, or it will be better still if we fix both our eyes upon Christ and see our transgressions only, in the light of his love.]
Powerful paragraph Mr. Spurgeon!
[True sorrow for sin is eminently practical. No man may say he hates sin, if he lives in it. Repentance makes us see the evil of sin, not merely as a theory, but experimentally-as a burnt child dreads fire. We shall be as much afraid of it, as a man who has lately been stopped and robbed is afraid of the thief upon the highway; and we shall shun it-shun it in everything-not in great things only, but in little things, as men shun little vipers as well as great snakes. True mourning for sin will make us very jealous over our tongue, lest it should say a wrong word; we shall be very watchful over our daily actions, lest in anything we offend, and each night we shall close the day with painful confessions of shortcoming, and each morning awaken with anxious prayers, that this day God would hold us up that we may not sin against him.
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent. Every other sorrow yields to time, but this dear sorrow grows with our growth, and it is so sweet a bitter, that we thank God we are permitted to enjoy and to suffer it until we enter our eternal rest.]
Please read this part one more time, “True mourning for sin will make us very jealous over our tongue, lest it should say a wrong word; we shall be very watchful over our daily actions, lest in anything we offend, and each night we shall close the day with painful confessions of shortcoming, and each morning awaken with anxious prayers, that this day God would hold us up that we may not sin against him.”
I pray to the Lord above He will make that real to all of us.
The Lord blessed me with this poem a few years ago and have used it in His outreach ministry. If you focus your life on Him, then you will be leaving no room for sin!
May This Day
May this day be about You, Lord
May my thoughts be of You
May each action that I take, Lord
be just like You would do.
May I strive to be less selfish
May my words just come from You
May my life be a living sacrifice
in all that I do.
May each person that I meet
May I plant a tiny seed
May it nurture in their heart Lord
and bring them closer to You indeed.
May they understand as I do
May their hearts be filled with love
May this day be about You, Lord
as we give praise to our Savior above.
E. P. Shagott
9/29/2007
From God’s heart, to mine, to yours,
Ed Shagott
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