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Friday, January 27, 2012

"I AM A SORRY!"aaa

Many persons experience such a challenge in saying, “I am sorry”. They would rather divert the blame to someone else instead of looking within to recognize how they may have contributed to an unpleasant event.

It is common knowledge that with every action is a reaction, as they say, and for someone who goes through life never being wrong, a dismal future awaits them. There are consequences to be encountered.

I think about Jeremiah 18. Even though God took the time to send His instructions and warnings through Jeremiah the prophet to the Israelites, instead of saying “We are sorry” (be repentant), they planned to destroy the messenger.

How many times have God sent messages to us about our sinful ways? How many times have we heard that ‘voice’ in our heads telling us we need to repent? How many times have we come under heavy conviction about our sinful state but we ignore it? How many times have we thought to hurt the one who lovingly takes God’s warning message to us?

There is something sweet, something wonderful that happens when we repent, when we say “I am sorry”. God changes the plan for our disaster. Yes friends, there are conditions. If we repent God will not only preserve but provide.

Our stubbornness hardheartedness will lead to our destruction, but a humble repentant spirit leads to peace and a pure joy in Jesus Christ.

PONDER – Are you always right and everyone is always wrong? Are you humble enough to confess wrongs and seek forgiveness? Do you believe that what God did for an unrepentant Israel He will do to you if you refuse to repent?

PRACTICE – First realize that saying I am sorry, being repentant is what God wants for us because that is when He gets to do a marvellous work in us. He cannot work with a stubborn impenitent person and that would leave Him no other choice but to discard such an individual. He has no use for such.

PRAYER – Father I repent of all my sins. I open myself to being used by You.

PASSAGE – Proverbs 28:13, “People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.” NLT 

    

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