True Repentance
Excellent post here from Dan Philips on True Repentance. Here’s an excerpt:
Here’s what repentance does. Repentance says I and I alone am responsible for what I did. Repentance says what I did was wrong in God’s eyes, and merits Hell. Repentance utterly damns the deed, it puts it to death and buries it with no gravestone and no flowers, and repentance turns one from the deed and from everything that gave birth to the deed.
But wait. There’s more.Part of damning and killing and burying the deed involves restitution to anyone affected by the deed. That is the Bible’s orientation from start to finish (cf. Matthew 5:23-26). Did you steal something? Give it back (duh) — with interest.
December 23 2009 05:00 am | Blog